Here he had the use of a library. The congregation of Cluny was suppressed in 1787. Chaudon took refuge in the village of Mézin.
Old age was drawing on.
His sight was failing, his health was feeble, but he secured the esteem of his new neighbors, who begged permission to place his portrait in the hall of the mairie. He lived through all the changes of the Revolution, for the last ten or twelve years blind and in much suffering, till his death, at age 80.
He died at Mézin.