sentences:  He joined the Orléanist parliamentary group, "Centre droit".Using the herbarium that he collected and those of the National Museum of Natural History, and with the help of Édouard Spach (1801–1879), he published his "Illustrationes plantarum orientalium" ("illustrations of plants of the east"; five volumes; Roret, Paris, 1842–1857).He was decorated Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 27 April 1830.