Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An haifi Faucher a Limoges, Haute-Vienne. Lokacin da yake dan shekara tara, iyalin suka koma Toulouse, inda aka tura yaron zuwa makaranta. Iyayensa sun rabu a shekara ta 1816, kuma Léon Faucher, wanda ya yi tsayayya da ƙoƙarin mahaifinsa na sanya shi cikin sana'a, ya taimaka ya tallafa wa kansa da mahaifiyarsa a lokacin sauran aikinsa na makaranta ta hanyar tsara zane da zane. A matsayin mai koyarwa mai zaman kansa a Paris ya ci gaba da karatunsa a fannin ilimin kimiyyar kayan tarihi da tarihi, amma tare da juyin juya halin 1830
an jawo shi cikin aikin jarida na siyasa a bangaren Liberal. Ya kasance a cikin ma'aikatan "Temps" daga 1830 zuwa 1833, lokacin da ya zama editan "Constitutionnel" na ɗan gajeren lokaci. Jaridar Lahadi ta kansa, "Le Bien public", ta tabbatar da mummunan rashin nasarar kudi; kuma 'yancin kansa na siyasa ya haifar da ritayarsa daga "Constitutionnel", ya shiga cikin 1834 "Le Courrier français", wanda ya kasance edita daga 1839 zuwa 1842, lokacin da jaridar ta canza hannun.