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His acceptance and promulgation of a doctrine which was

pronounced heretical by the Catholic Church, and which inculcated

a religious reverence for Napoleonic traditions, made it

impossible for the French government to retain his services in a

government institution, and in 1844 he was deprived of his

professorship. The accession to power of Napoleon III. filled him

with new hopes. In 1855 he journeyed to Constantinople, wishing

to aid in the war against Russia, and there he died of the

cholera. His remains, first laid to rest in Paris, were

transferred in 1890 to the cathedral at Cracow.(4)