[1] Tupinier was disgraced at the second Bourbon Restoration and sent to Angoulême in the forestry department of the Navy.
[1] He supervised major improvements to the ports of Toulon, Brest, Rochefort, Lorient and Cherbourg.
[3] He was part of the Commission de Paris of 1834 that designed the Suffren-class ship of the line.
As Inspector General of Marine Engineering, he presided over organization of the fleet that carried the expeditionary army in the invasion of Algiers in 1830.
[5] After the July Revolution of 1830 Tupinier was made acting Minister of the Navy, and at once gave the order to hoist the tricolor.
On 4 November 1837 he was elected deputy for the 6th college of Charente-Intérieure (Rochefort), and was reelected for this constituency on 2 March 1839.
He had been made a Knight of St. Louis in 1817, a member of the Order of St. Ferdinand of Spain in 1829 and a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor on 30 April 1840.