He landed in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, on June 25, 1839 and arrived in Bogotá on September 5. He served as Charge d'Affaires of France in Bogotá from 1839 to 1843; intervened in various matters related to French interests in the Panama Canal, and was responsible for negotiating the compensation received by the French subjects whose merchandise was seized by the authorities of Granada in the North American schooner " By Chance ", through an agreement signed by him and Mariano Ospina in 1843.