Although born in France, the conquests of the War of the Second Coalition brought him to the Italian Peninsula where his chief legacy was the founding of the masonic Rite of Misraim in 1813.

He was a scholar of Egyptology (something then very popular in France) and an honorary member of the Bonapartist Lodge of the Philosophical Scottish Rite "Saint Napoleon" of Palazzo Cocchi-Serristori in Florence.

He is remembered for having founded the Masonic "Rito Egizio di Misraim" in 1813 and, together with Jacob and Joseph, constituted the first Egyptian Rite of Paris on 19 May 1815, called Arc en Ciel (Arcobaleno), closely associated with the Italian and French circles of Filippo Buonarroti.

The definitive structure of the Egyptian Rite of Misraim dates back to 1818, while in Brussels in 1819 it regulated the "Tegolatura Suprema Scala di Napoli", better known as "Arcana Arcanorum."

The Royal Masonic Cyclopaedia (1877) by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie (author of the Cipher Manuscripts of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn), considers the three Bédarride brothers; Marc, Michel and Joseph as "charlatans".