On his return to the Convention, he criticised those who “denounced as aristocrats all those who are not terrorists.” He was elected to the Committee of General Security and then to the Committee of Public Safety. He was a strong defender of the law on religious freedom, to calm religious quarrels. During the Revolt of 1 Prairial Year III (20 May 1795) and the royalist uprising of 13 Vendémiaire Year IV (5 October 1795), he was one of the députés leading the armed forces of the Convention.