Name seems vaguely familiar. I think from various historical podcasts about that period. After googling him I do recall learning about him the his part in the reign of Napoleon. His being welcomed back to France was an example of Napoleon reaching out to the right wing after getting power, or so The Age of Napoleon podcast I am currently listening to tells me (he was also discussed in the excellent Revolutions podcast IIRC but that was longer ago and has completely slipped my mind).
One of the more fascinating memoirists in world literature, although IME, many have not read his seminal magnum opus.
He’s not only of interest to students of French literature and history, but to those Anglos who are interested in early relationships between the French colonialists and North American natives.
Maybe not a great prose stylist in his own works, and perhaps a bit long-winded, but his Memoirs is absolutely top-twenty reads from the XIXth century in the FR language. Indispensable, but IMHO, it is a “read once” type of text. I believe there is an English translation, but I seem to remember there is not a complete translation…not sure about that.
Plus, there’s the bifstek, which is not nothing, you know!
Well, to a vegetarian, it’s not much - just one more dish I’ll never eat. 
I cannot comment on his French prose, having only read it in English, and not having read much of his contemporaries in the original, either - my experience with French literature is largely modern, somewhat popular, and largely Québécoise.
I will tell you that the style of his poetry, while conservative, is outstanding. Baudelaire, as but one example, considered his a master stylist and a huge influence. And he was one of the first of the Romantic poets to sing of the values of nature in its original, wild state, as opposed to the cultivated nature of the earlier period.
That sounds like a meaty story.
We read something of his in high school French. Been a while, but I think he was praising the “noble savage” stereotype.
I haven’t encountered any of that in the writings that I know, and there’s none of that in show because that just wouldn’t go over at all any more, but - he’s certainly from an era where it would not surprise me in the least to encounter him repeating that trope…