Antoine Drouot

For his conduct at the battles of Lützen, Bautzen in 1813, where he commanded the artillery of the Imperial Guard, he was made a general of division and aide-de-camp to the Emperor Napoleon.

He was with the Imperial Guard for the Waterloo Campaign,[5] and on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo he took command of the Imperial Guard when Marshal Mortier who would generally assume command fell ill with sciatica,[6] He was with Napoleon when at the end of the battle just before the rout when Napoleon briefly took command of a square of grenadier Guards, near Decoster's house, and left the field with Napoleon.

Later in the campaign (after Napoleon had abdicated for the second time), he was commandant of the Imperial Guard in Paris.

[5] After the surrender of Paris and the restoration of King Louis XVIII, Drouot stood trial for treason in which he defended himself skilfully.

Héquet wrote "France was astonished in 1814 to learn, that she had possessed for a long time the best officer of artillery in Europe".