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On February 8, 1839, he parted to leave New York City for Paris where he hoped to get France involved.

In May, he published the Histoire de l ' insurrection du Canada ( History of the insurrection in Canada ) in the magazine Progrès.

Despite meeting with influential politicians such as Lamartine and Lamennais, the France of Louis-Philippe also remained neutral.

After his wife left in 1843 " he spent a large part of his leisure in the main archival repositories in Paris, where he copied documents relating French rule in Canada ".