 In 1793 Charles saved the life of a lady guilty of sending money to an "émigré", declaring to his father that if she were condemned he would take his own life.He was sent to Strasbourg, where he studied with Eulogius Schneider, the notorious Jacobin and public prosecutor of Alsace, but a good Greek scholar.During the Reign of Terror his father put him under the care of Justin Girod-Chantrans, with whom he studied English and German.