 Elected a member of the Société des Antiquaires de France in 1845, he founded the same year a philology review, literature and ancient history and is charged about the same time to lead the new edition of the" Modern Encyclopedia of Courtin".Appointed assistant librarian at the library of the Sorbonne 1847, he became Conservative administrator.Commissioned by the Institute in 1850-1852, specifically the collection of Roman inscriptions of Algeria,

In 1856 he was elected member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.