Death
He was elected to the Académie Française in 1825, though he appears to have had small qualifications for the honour, and in the following year was named tutor to the six-year-old heir to the throne, the Duc de Bordeaux. He died two months after receiving this prestigious appointment, on 24 March 1826.
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