Ka cika wannan furcin: Ya ba da kansa sosai ga aikin kuma a shekara ta 1813 ya yi tafiyar fiye da mil dubu ashirin da biyar a Faransa da kuma wasu ɓangarori na Italiya. Iyalinsa, duk da haka, ba su da tausayi sosai game da ayyukansa na ƙasa, kuma sun shawo kan shi ya daina tafiyarsa. Taswirar da ya yi na Faransa da yankunan da ke makwabtaka ba a buga shi ba har zuwa 1822 kuma ya zama tushe don ƙarin cikakken binciken Armand Dufrénoy da Elie de Beaumont. Bayan ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin shugaban gundumar Dinant (1814) da babban sakataren lardin Liège (1815), ya zama gwamnan Namur a 1815. Ya gudanar da wannan ofishin har bayan da
Juyin juya halin 1830. An zabe shi memba na Majalisar Dattawa ta Belgium a 1848, ya zama mataimakin shugabanta a 1851, an sanya shi memba na Kwalejin Brussels a 1816, kuma an zabe shi shugabanta a 1850.