Although to a certain extent opposed to the autocracy of the Emperor, he was not in favor of his deposition, although he accepted the "fait accompli" of the Bourbon Restoration in April 1814. Louis XVIII made him a Peer of France, but during the subsequent Hundred Days, he accepted from Napoleon the post of "grand maître de l'Université". As a consequence, he was suspended from the House of Peers when the Bourbons returned again in 1815, but was recalled in 1819. He died five years later in Sainte-Mesme (then in Seine-et-Oise, now in Yvelines).