[7] President Remigio Morales Bermúdez, who was personally impressed by the intellect of Paulet, provided a scholarship to him in 1894 to begin studies for a degree in engineering and architecture at the University of Paris.

[4] In one incident, he ruptured the eardrum in his left ear due to an explosion and was temporarily arrested upon suspicions of being an anarchist, though Berthelot was able to explain that Paulet was a student.

[9] In 1897, he became a member of the Société astronomique de France and reportedly began to experiment with the "Girándula Motriz", or "Power Gyro".

[9] Due to the use of an oxidizing agent, the engine would have had the ability to function in the vacuum environment of outer space where oxygen is not present for combustion.

[9] Due to his fluency in English, French, German and Spanish, he served as a correspondent for various newspapers, including Le Figaro and La Petite République.

[7] With these funds, Paulet was able to continue his studies and to travel to Northern Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the United States in search of ideas on rocketry.

[10][7][11] While attending the university, he would study under Charles Friedel, Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, exchanging ideas with them on the best methods to provide rocket propulsion.

[5][14] In 1904, he became the first director of the Escuela Nacional de Artes y Oficios, later known as the Instituto Superior Tecnológico Público José Pardo, after returning to Peru.

[15] President José Pardo y Barreda would also task Paulet with constructing the Goyeneche Hospital, directing the El Peruano newspaper and reviewing new ships for the Peruvian Navy.

[16][11] Encouraging Minister of War Pedro Muñíz to create an aviation organization after observing the feats of aircraft in Europe, Paulet would help found the National Pro-Aviation League, which would later be developed into the Peruvian Air Force.

[19] President Augusto B. Leguía would then appoint him as the counsel in Dresden, Germany in 1921, with Louise selling all the family's shares for the you company.

[21] Paulet said that his rocket motor was made of vanadium, weighed 2.5 kilos, was fueled by nitrogen peroxide and gasoline, which produced three hundred explosions per minute and had ninety kilograms of thrust.

[5] The Astronomische Gesellschaft invited Paulet to join the society in order to progress research in rocketry, though once he discovered that the program was primarily for a weapon, he refused to work with the government and never shared the formula to his liquid propellant.

[20] He would return to Peru in 1935 with his family, all except for his oldest child Hector who had married a woman in Japan, with Paulet helping with the creation of the Commercial Department of the Chancellery.

[31] Towards the end of his life, Paulet would experience tinnitus and dizziness due to previous damage to his ears, causing him great stress.

[8] James H. Wyld would state that "the validity of his claim may be rather doubtful, but it is interesting, nevertheless, ... Paulet's device appears to have been the earliest example of a so-called bipropellant rocket motor ... His use of nitrogen peroxide as oxidizer also foreshadowed certain modern propellants such as nitric acid, and the set-up of his test stand was quite similar to types used in later years.

"[33] German science writer Willy Ley was one of the first people to express skepticism of Paulet and stated that "The doubts are obviously correct" in Grundriss einer Geschichte der Rakete, strongly criticizing Scherschevsky, calling him "lazy by nature" and "in favor of the Soviet government", stating that he "uncritically put hearsay into some of his articles, and into his one and only book.

[39] El Comercio published several artist's interpretations[40] of the Paulet's designs on 10 March 1965, in the article A Peruvian Engineer is the World Forerunner of Jet Propulsion Aircraft.