Dismissed, degraded and put on half pay under Louis XVIII, he then embarked on literature and collaborated to numerous magazines : Revue et gazette des théâtres, La Minerve, L'Abeille, L'Indépendant, La Boussole politique, La Pandore, Le Siècle, Les Salons de Paris, les Annales de l'école française et des beaux-arts etc.

His poems and songs directed against the Bourbon earned him six months' imprisonment.

He was particularly active in the Trois Glorieuses, was awarded the croix de juillet and was returned his Légion d'honneur.

He was also reinstated as battalion commander of the National Guard of Paris, a position he would leave in 1834.

In 1832 he was awarded a medal of the city of Paris for his bravery during the cholera epidemic.