 On his return to Paris, he joined the Variétés, where he acted for fifteen years in such plays as "Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges", "Le Lion empaillé", "Une dernière conquête", etc.Another engagement at the Vaudeville followed, and one at the Gaîté, and he ended his brilliant career at the Gymnase in the part of the noble father in such plays as "Les Vieux Garçons" and "Nos bons villageois".On 12 July 1848 he married the dancer Pauline Leroux.