Directory and Beyond
He then became a member of the Directory's Council of Five Hundred, and was named secretary. Drouet was implicated in the conspiracy of Babeuf, and was imprisoned, but made his escape into Switzerland, and went from there to Tenerife, where he took part in the successful resistance to Horatio Nelson's attack on the island, in 1797; he later visited India. He returned to France without being prosecuted, and took his seat in the Council with the Neo-Jacobins (who were trying to revive the Jacobin Club).
By the First Empire, he had become a sub-préfet of Sainte-Menehould. After the Second Restoration in 1815, he was compelled to leave France after being deemed "regicide", but, returning secretly, he settled at Mâcon, under the name of Merger, and kept his identity hidden until his death.
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