Jacques MacDonald - Under The Bourbons

Under The Bourbons

At the Restoration, he was made a peer of France and knight grand cross of the royal order of St. Louis; he remained faithful to the new order during the Hundred Days. In 1815, he became chancellor of the Legion of Honour, a post he held till 1831. In 1816, as major-general of the royal bodyguard, he took part in the debates of the Chamber of Peers, created under the Charter of 1814, voting consistently as a moderate Liberal.

From 1830, he lived in retirement at his country place Courcellesle-Roi (Seine-et-Oise), where he died.

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