[4] His father moved to France after the British annexed the island in 1810, and married the daughter of Alexandre Chevassut(fr).

[5] Chevassut was a political agent and journalist who was the valet of Madame de Staël and founded the journal Le Constitutionnel under the Bourbon Restoration.

[6] Chevassut employed Nicole Robinet de La Serve on the anti-royalist and Bonapartist daily Le Constitutionnel.

[5] Nicole Robinet de La Serve's returned to Reunion with his family in 1825 when he heard his mother was dying, and became leader of the clandestine francs-créoles political organization and founder of two unauthorized newspapers, le Furet and then le Salazien.

[9] After his father died on 18 December 1842 La Serve became part owner and operator of a sugar factory at Saint-André.

[1] La Serve voted with the left for the government of Adolphe Thiers, for dissolution of the assembly, against the ministry of 24 May 1873, against the seven-year term(fr), against the law on mayors, for the amendments of Henri-Alexandre Wallon and Pascal Pierre Duprat and for the constitutional laws.