[1] Two years later he was appointed special inspector to the normal schools and kept this job until he died at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, a suburb of Brussels, on 1 December 1874.

He had published a Chant héllenique in honour of Konstantinos Kanaris in the columns of La Sentinelle des Pays-Bas as early as 1826, and other poems followed.

In the same volume were printed his Études rythmiques, a series of metrical experiments designed to show that the French language could be adapted to every kind of musical rhythm.

With the same end in view he executed translations of many German songs, and wrote new French libretti for the best-known operas of Mozart, Weber and others.

A series of tributes to his memory was printed in the Poesies choisies (1901), edited by M. Georges Barral for the Collection des poètes français de l'etranger.