Freed from prison after the Thermidorean reaction, he resumed his seat in the Convention on 18 Frimaire Year III (8 December 1794). He was named secretary of the Convention on 5 March 1795 and appointed to the Committee of public safety on 3 June 1795. He opposed the Jacobins, speaking against the defence of Laurent Lecointre on 30 March, and on 19 May joined the deputies denouncing the actions of the Committee of public safety before Thermidor. Turning to Louis-Gustave Doulcet de Pontécoulant who was defending Robert Lindet, he cried out 'Do the eighteen months of their tyranny count for nothing with you?' He also rebuked Jeanbon Saint André for having ruined the navy. He also joined the other deputies from Brest in denouncing Joseph Donzé de Verteuil, the public prosecutor of the city's revolutionary tribunal. He was sent as a représentant en mission to the armée de l'Ouest with Tallien. At the time of the Quiberon expedition, after the Republican victory, he demanded that the lives of émigrés aged less than sixteen be spared, but the Convention nevertheless passed a decree condemning them.