sentences:  Following the general election of 9 July 1842 Jaubert was briefly in opposition to the government, and voted against the indemnity proposed by François Guizot to be paid to Britain in compensation for the imprisonment of the missionary George Pritchard in Tahiti.He was appointed to the Peerage of France on 27 November 1844.He took no part in the Revolution of 1848, and under the Second Empire, he withdrew from political life, devoting himself to botany and business.