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He soon returned to France, and his admiration for Napoleon, who commissioned him to write an éloge on George Washington, secured his return to the Institute and his political promotion.
In 1802 he was elected to the legislative chamber, of which he was president from 1804 to 1810.
Other honors and titles followed.
He has been accused of servility to Napoleon, but he had the courage to remonstrate with him on the judicial murder of the duc d ' Enghien, and as grand master of the University of Paris ( 1808 – 1815 ) he consistently supported religious and monarchical principles.
He acquiesced in the Bourbon restoration, and was made a marquis in 1817.
He died on March 17, 1821 in Paris, leaving eight cantos of an unfinished epic poem entitled La Grâce sauve.
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