In 1807, Napoleon I charged him with the task of erecting a monument to the glory of his victories over the English and Russians. He was finally replaced for this project by Jean-Antoine Alavoine.
In 1812, Napoleon entrusted him with the project of building a palace of the Archives, the first stone of which was laid on August 15, Saint Napoleon's Day, the Emperor being in the middle of the Russian campaign in front of Smolensk. This palace of the Archives was to be located in the new administrative district designed by the Emperor and was to face the Palace of the King of Rome, at one of the four ends of the Champ de Mars, at the east and along the river Seine.[2] Its realization was to be entrusted to Cellerier.[3] The events of 1815 and the fall of the Empire, however, put an end to this project, which remained unfinished.
In 1813, he used again the gothic style for the first time since the completion of the Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d'Orléans, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis, which was endowed with a richly decorated Gothic chapel. Cellerier also built a neoclassical winter choir.
Grand Théâtre de Dijon, place du Théâtre. Cellerier only started it because his first stone was laid in 1810, but the work was suspended from 1811 to 1822. They resumed under the direction of the Parisian architect Vallot; the monument was completed in 1828[5][6]
^Claudine Hugonnet-Berger, Pascale de Maulmin, Bernard Sonnet, Théâtres en Bourgogne Architectures du spectacle 1800-1940, Dijon, Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles de Bourgogne, Service régional de l'Inventaire général, 1996, p. 18-20.
