He was tasked with restoring order in Beauvais and Oise, but was considered too moderate and André Dumont was sent to assist him.

He returned to Paris after the Fall of Robespierre, opposed the Thermidorean Reaction, and took part in the insurrection of 12 Germinal, Year III, for which the Convention imprisoned him until the amnesty at its dissolution in 1795.

He went into exile during the Bourbon Restoration, returning to France for the Hundred Days (1815) and again after the July Revolution of 1830.

At the trial, Achille Roche, putative editor of the memoirs, was regarded as the author.

[3] Sarthe departmental archives marked the 220th anniversary of the abolition of slavery with an exhibition on Levasseur.