However, he renounced his stay in Rome and settled with his wife Francoise Caroline Rouget de Gourcez in Niort, where her father had been mayor until the French Revolution.
Er verzichtete jedoch auf den Romaufenthalt und ließ sich mit seiner Frau Francoise Caroline Rouget de Gourcez in Niort nieder, wo deren Vater bis zur Revolution Bürgermeister gewesen war.