[2] De Corcelle served as a member of the National Assembly from 1839 to 1851, representing Gard.

[1] Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso, after the fall of the Roman Republic, wrote about him in the Souvenirs: "...at the feet of another of the general's granddaughters, I then saw M. de Corcelles sigh.

His gentle and open demeanor, his patriotic and disinterested language won him the consent of the illustrious grandfather.

With what grief and wrath would M. de La Fayette have been seized, if still alive and retired to his castle, he would have learned that M. de Corcelles, decorated with the title of Extraordinary Envoy of the French Republic, would surrender in 1849 in Gaeta.

What a formidable judge would have expected M. de Corcelles on his return, when General de La Fayette, with the authority of an irreproachable conscience and life, questioning him about his conduct, would have said to him: Couldn't his little son have felt the blush rise to his forehead, and what other answer could he have made, if not, by lowering his eyes, to keep silent?