M. de Roland was more widely known among his contemporaries as a conservative politician, author of the political essay "De l'État des partis en France" (1839), and of an essay on the dictatorial political strength of radical, socialist Paris over the provinces ("De la dictature de Paris sur la France") in the year of revolution, 1848. The crisis of 1848 elicited from him several other pamphlets. He was a member of the Corps législatif under the Second Empire (1852-1870). He published his "Souvenirs politiques et administratifs" in 1855. His father, aide-de-camp of the prince de Polignac and a staunch royalist during the Hundred Days was ennobled by Louis XVIII at the second Bourbon restoration, 1815, and was made a member of the Legion of Honor.