The absence of works represented or published between 1803 and 1815 can be explained by a sentence of 8 years of jail imposed on 29 prairial year XI (19 June 1803) by the Special Court of Paris for "forgery in authentic and public writing".
A convinced bonapartist, he hailed the return of the Emperor from the Island of Elba by publishing l'Ambition de Napoléon dévoilée probably in March.
After the fall of the Empire, he attacked Louis XVIII as soon as he returned to the throne, and had to take the road of exile to avoid a new stay in prison.
The place and date of his death, which can be located between 1819, the date of publication of his last play, and 1833, the year in which his wife Marie-Anne Cayla was designated as "Lacombe widow" in the settlement of his estate at Figeac, remain unknown.
Chateauvieux is a trisaïeul[4] of naturalist and ethnographer Léon de Cessac [fr] (1841-1891).