[1] The open and moderate attitude shown by the doge Michelangelo Cambiaso guaranteed for his entire mandate a relative social and political tranquility.

The Republic of Genoa itself, with a formal and official deed dated 1 June 1792, proclaimed itself a "neutral" position towards France and managed to maintain this neutral status even when, between August and December of the same year, refused an agreed French occupation of the Port of Savona in order, according to the French, to avoid hypothetical and same military action in the Ligurian territories by the Austro-Sardinian armies.

A new government commission was established and, although in the majority made up of pro-French members, Michelangelo Cambiaso was also part of it as maire (mayor) of the municipality of Genoa.

With this charge he welcomed General Napoleon Bonaparte to the door of San Tommaso on 30 June 1805.

After spending almost two years in Paris, in November 1807 he returned to Genoa, where he was joined by the appointment Count of the First French Empire, and by the subsequent decoration was awarded the Order of the Reunion by Napoleon himself.