text:  He lived through the dangers of the Revolution; wrote odes and satires indiscriminately on friend and foe; worshipped power to the last and was the sycophant and would have been the murderer of Napoleon as he had been of Louis and Robespierre; and died at last in receipt of a pension from the state member (like Lord Brougham) of the National Institute of France; and had his panegyric pronounced on him by his successor as if he had united the virtues of Aristides to the genius of Homer