Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Ya sadaukar da kansa sosai ga aikin kuma a shekara ta 1813 ya yi tafiyar mil 15,500 a Faransa da sassan 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 rike wannan ofishin har bayan juyin juya halin 1830
Ka yi haƙuri. 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.