[1] His family had long belonged to the noblesse de robe of Paris and included officials in finance and also members of the army.
[4] Their children were Louis Xavier (1775–1840), Charles (1776–1813), Angélique (1779–1792), Philippe (1781) and Louise (1784–1850).
[4] During the French Revolution on 25 July 1791 he was appointed a colonel of the 80th Infantry Regiment.
[1] He was made marechal de camp on 6 February 1792 in the Army of the Cherbourg coasts, where the Duke of La Rochefoucauld had wanted to prepare a retreat for King Louis XVI of France.
[5] On 31 July 1793 he killed himself with a bullet to the head to avoid the guillotine.