 A year later he was elected to the Académie française, and though he continued to speak frequently, he took no important share in party politics.Louis Philippe sought his help in his vain efforts to form a ministry in February 1848.After the revolution, he was deputy for the Gironde to the Constituent Assembly, and in 1849 to the Legislative Assembly, where he was one of the leaders of the Right until the coup d'état on 2 December 1851 drove him from public life.