Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I whanau a Cluseret i te 13 o Hune 1823 i Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine. I te tau 1841 ka uru ia ki te whare wananga hoia o Saint-Cyr, a i tukuna ia ki te ope French i te tau 1843. I meinga ia hei rangatira o te 23rd Mobile Guard battalion whai muri i te hurihanga o Hui-tanguru o 1848
, me te whai wāhi i roto i te repression o te Pipiri Days Uprising i muri i nei ki te riro ia riri i roto i etahi wahi pāpori. Na tana tautoko i te whakaaturanga anti-Bonapartist i te 29 o Hanuere 1849 i whakaitihia ai ia mai i te rangatira o tana roopu, a ka rere ia ki Ranana i muri o te tukinga a Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte o Tihema 1851.