[3] With the February Revolution of 1848 Lucet became the private secretary of his friend Jean-François Joly(fr), who had been named commissioner of five departments in the region.

[5] In Toulouse during the fall of 1848 in the lead-up to the presidential elections conservative republicans supported Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, liberals supported General Louis-Eugène Cavaignac, while radicals led by Lucet and Armand Duportal(fr) led the campaign for Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin.

[5] Lucet was prosecuted for his attacks on the 1849 Italian expedition that destroyed the short-lived Roman Republic and spent six months in preventative detention before being tried by the cour d'assises, where he was defended by Jules Favre.

[4] Lucet spent six years in Italy, then settled in Constantine, Algeria, where his two brothers were officers in the Army of Africa, and where he had friends who shared his political opinions.

He bought land and created large farms, and in 1862 was named president of the Constantine agricultural fair, an organization that had been established due to his initiative.

He voted against the peace treaty, against the resignation of Adolphe Thiers, against the septennat(fr), for the return to Paris, for the amendment of Pascal Pierre Duprat and for the constitutional laws.

[6] Lucet was elected Senator of Algeria for the department of Constantine on 30 January 1876 by 42 votes against 26 for General de Lacroix.