Vélez-Málaga (August 1704) freed up the position of intendant of the navy (intendant des armées navales), which Jérôme (as Secretary of State of the Navy) then assigned to François. Thus, after a three-year stay, François left Canada in December 1705 and took up the new role on 1 January 1706. On 1 January 1710, Beauharnois became intendant des classes following the reforms of Pierre Arnoul but he had little time to exercise his new functions - the death of Michel Bégon on 13 March 1710 left the intendances of Rochefort and of the généralité of La Rochelle vacant. Beauharnois took up them both on 24 March 1710, but in 1715 had to abandon that of La Rochelle on the Regent's orders, under the pretext that he wasn't the maître des requêtes (Beauharnois was nevertheless offered the chance to buy that généralité, but refused). Following pressure on Maurepas, Beauharnois was also dismissed from the intendance of Rochefort and was made intendant of the navy for a second time on 1 April 1739. François de Beauharnois thus retired to his lands at Boëche, the old name of the seigneurie of La Chaussée (or la Chaussaye), located in the faubourgs of Orléans, and died there on 9 October 1746. Properties in France and Canada Besides his lands near Orléans, Beauharnois profited from his brief time in New France to procure the Banville (or Beauville or Bauville) estate there, located in Acadia. The king gave him, by a brevet of 2 April 1707, the land of Port-Maltais (river comprising four places of the bank, two in the depths, with the adjacent islands). On 25 June 1707, by letters patent, this land was formed into the barony of Banville. At the end of his life, Beauharnois enjoyed several pensions which totalled an annual income of 21,200 livres. His will left his property to two nephews, sons of his younger brother Beauharnois de Beaumont. The older of the two, the marquis de Beauharnois, lieutenant général des armées navales, broke the will by dividing the inheritance between all the nephews and nieces, including Michel Bégon fils, premier commis du bureau des Fonds. The family Eslandoost de Beauville is the last one of the heirs of François de Beauharnois de la Chaussaye to bear his name. Heraldry On the establishment of the Armorial général de France by Pierre d'Hozier, François de Beauharnois arms were registered on 23 December