[1] He also joined the General Council of the Bouches-du-Rhône (representing Peyrolles), when he campaigned for match-making factories to be returned to the French homeland rather than in her colonies; they were returned to France in 1872, and a new match-making factory was built in Aix from 1892 to 1895 (now reconverted as the Bibliothèque Méjanes, a public library, since 1989).

[1] He was opposed to the policies of Léon Gambetta (1838-1882) and Jules Ferry (1832-1892), and he voted against extending the Tonkin Campaign in Vietnam.

[1] He supported a break-up of the match-making industry in France, a French state monopoly which lasted from 1872 to 1992 (initially established to finance the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871).

[1][2] In his second tenure, which started in 1903, he opposed the policies of Maurice Rouvier (1842–1911) Pierre Tirard (1827-1893) [1] He was also in favour of going after General Georges Ernest Boulanger (1837–1891), who attempted a coup d'état in 1889.

[1] He took a look at regulating the use of the Durance, protecting wild birds, increasing the number of fields of olive trees and tobacco in Provence, and promoting the Étang de Berre.