on 22 august 1962 the général appointed claude hettier de boislambert to the position of grand chancellor of the [highly prestigious] order of liberation. his mandate would be renewed four times. the only higher rank in the order was that of grand master, which was held by charles de gaulle himself. after the general died in november 1970 the council of the order determined that there could be no successor . the grand chancellor remained in post till 1978, however. he did not view the role simply as a sinecure. he oversaw a restoration of the hôtel des invalides and the robert de cotte paviliion in which he installed, in 1967, the chancellry of the order of liberation. in 1970 he and his wife odette created the musée de l'ordre de la libération at les invalides.