He lost this pension after the French Revolution. The Convention eventually voted to restore his pension the day after his death. It was restored to his widow, at the pleading of the poet André Chénier; "She is old", he urged, "she is seventy-six, and her husband has left her no heritage save his illustrious name, his virtues and his poverty."
After the French Revolution, he lost his pension. The Convention restored it posthumously on the day of his death. His widow was granted the pension after a plea from the poet André Chénier who argued that she was elderly and had no other inheritance but her husband's name, virtues, and poverty.