Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Babban hafsan sojan sarki a 1860, an daukaka shi zuwa general de division a 1866 kafin ya zama mataimakin sarkin sarki a 1868. A shekara ta 1870, an ba shi aikin diflomasiyya a Vienna kafin ya zama babban mataimakin babban janar na rundunar Rhine a 1870. Daga nan sai ya umurci XII Corps a 1870, ya jagoranci shi a yakin Beaumont, Mouzon, Bazeilles
(inda ya umurci Blue Division) kuma a karshe Sedan. An tsare shi a matsayin fursunonin yaƙi a tsibirin Iges (yana so ya kasance tare da mutanensa) sannan a Jamus a Koblenz sannan Aix-la-Chapelle. Bayan da aka sake shi, ya yi aiki a matsayin da dama, kamar memba na Mixed Commission on Public Works, babban jami'in kula da makarantar horar da ma'aikata, shugaban hukumar de révision du règlement sur le service des places, memba na kwamitin tsaro da kuma shugaban hukumar kan sake fasalin ma'aikatan sojojin. Ya kuma rubuta takardu da littattafai da yawa. Ya dauki umurnin III Corps daga 1873 zuwa 1879, lokacin da ya yi ritaya, ya mutu shekaru goma bayan haka kuma an binne shi a hurumi a wurin haihuwarsa.