 In 1815 a black marble tablet was placed on his grave which stated that Álvarez had been poisoned, and was a "Victim of the Iniquity of the French Tyrant".In December 1823 French troops, ironically invading Spain in order to restore the tottering throne of Ferdinand VII, passed through Figueres, and on the orders of Marshal Moncey, formerly Napoleon's Inspector-General of Police, destroyed the plaque.In 1880 a funerary monument, sculpted by Jeronimo Suñol, was erected in the Church of San Felix in Girona.