After a great inquiry held in 1892 by a senatorial committee a reaction was produced in France against this excessive assimilation.
Moreover, he irritated public opinion by raising to senatorial rank the director-general of the Banca Romana, Signor Tanlongo, whose irregular practices had become a byword.
He never held political office, although he was a candidate for the Republican senatorial nomination against Senator Thomas C. Platt in 1897.
He belonged to a senatorial family, which had attained considerable distinction under the emperors, his father and grandfather having been well-known jurists.
