Законодательный корпус
From 1809 to 1814, under the Empire, he represented his "département" in the Lower House ("Corps législatif"); in 1814 he voted for the downfall of Napoleon; in 1815 he retired into private life, and in 1816 he was elected a member of the Institute (Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres). He died in Paris on 2 April 1839.