The Courmes houses undoubtedly represented by far the two most important businesses in Grasse, very prosperous, the soap factory maintains close relationships by its very nature, with the oil mill and the emerging perfumery[12] The object, the commercial goal sought is vast.

[16] The Courmes house, linked to major Marseille commerce,[17] invests in a commercial fleet and takes shares notably in the "Tartane Saint-Pierre", "L'avenir" and the "Rose-Louise".

Member of the district electoral college in 1804, general councilor of Var from 1811 to 1833, sitting in the majority supporting the July monarchy, he was placed by the government as mayor of Grasse in 1830.

François-Xavier Emmanuelli describes him as "A soap maker, moderate royalist for whom the change of dynasty and the limited expansion of the censary regime constituted the final concessions to the new spirit".

Confirmed to this position in 1832, elected deputy for Var (Grasse constituency) on July 5, 1831, he took his place in the ranks of the government majority and voted with it until 1834, the year in which he gave up his seat on May 25, 1834.