He was then confirmed as adjudant-général colonel on 25 prairial year III before taking part in the commission set up by general Moreau to plan a crossing of the Rhine.
He was made inspector of reviews on 8 pluviôse year VIII before being recalled to command the 4th Military Division during the congress of Lunéville.
On 8 July 1814 the restored king made him a Cross of the Order of Saint Louis, but on 2 August that year he was dismissed as inspector-general and on 1 January 1815 put on half pay.
The Dictionnaire des Généraux français relates of him: When allied troops arrived in the outskirts of Paris, an officer and six Prussian soldiers were encamped at Saint-Cyr ; soon a large force of allied troops gathered outside this establishment, demanding that the Prussians be handed over to them, and also desiring that they lay down their arms and hand over the students as prisoners.
General Bellavène, after having put the seven foreigners in a place of safety, appeared alone before the allied troops and declared to them that, since the arms belonged to the ministry, the students to their parents and his guests to his honour, he was resolved to hand over neither one nor the others.