 He strolled in Hyde Park, which he later used as a model when he created the Bois de Boulogne in Paris.Living in the comfort of London, he had not given up the dream of returning to France to seize power.In the summer of 1840 he bought weapons and uniforms and had proclamations printed, gathered a contingent of about sixty armed men, hired a ship called the "Edinburgh-Castle", and on 6 August 1840, sailed across the Channel to the port of Boulogne.