After completing his studies in a Polytechnical school, having inherited his father's entire fortune, he undertook his first journey to Egypt.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Richmond: Virginia Department of Agriculture and United States Department of Agriculture, 1936. Virginia Polytechnical Institute.
"Frying Pan Farm"
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
He confirmed also the decorations granted to the national guard; and distributed new ones among the brave pupils of the Polytechnical school, whose noble conduct had so much excited the admiration of Paris, and of foreigners, at the time of the occurrences of 1814. The daughters of the members of the legion of honour had claims to his remembrance, and his consolation, too sacred, not to participate in his favours.
"Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I"
Pierre Antoine Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon