Career
He was a planter, merchant, military officer, and United States. Marshal for eastern Louisiana. As a young man, he attended the Academy of Saint Cyr and the Royal Cavalry School at Saumur in the 1830s, before serving two to three years as a lieutenant in the French Cavalry. The couple had three or four daughters.
During the, he was a colonel in the 10th Louisiana Infantry ("French Brigade", "French Legion") and served in Virginia.
He resided for much of his life in, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. In the 1870 United States. Census, he is listed there in the community of Lewisburg.