Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei irava - I whanau a Delecluze i Dreux, Eure-et-Loir. I ako ia i te ture i Paris, a ka noho hei mema mo etahi hapori pirihimana huna. I whai wāhi hoki ia ki te hurihanga o Hōngongoi 1830
i hinga ai i te rangatiratanga o Bourbon, ā, i whakanohoia a Kingi Louis-Philippe ki te mana. I te tau 1836 i akina ia ki te rerenga ki Belgium, i reira i whakatapua ai ia ki te mahi nūpepa.