If invoked, ministers re-enter the arena and decide a case.
In 1783, although he declined to re-enter the cabinet, he acted as Speaker of the House of Lords.
Beaten back at Granville, they tried to re-enter the Vendee, but were repulsed at Angers.
Bignon did not re-enter public life until 1817, when he was elected to the chamber of deputies, in which he sat until 1830, consistent in his opposition to the reactionary policy of successive governments.
He did not re-enter the public service until the period of the Empire, when the arch-chancellor Cambaceres used his influence with Napoleon to procure for him the office of "maitre des requetes" to the council of state.