[1] Serving in the early campaigns of the French Revolutionary Wars, he was promoted to the rank of colonel by 1800.

[1] After Dominique Vandamme was made prisoner during the battle of Kulm, Lobau commanded the retreat of the remnants of the corps.

He served under Laurent Gouvion Saint-Cyr when, upon the retreat after the battle of Leipzig, the latter was trapped in Dresden and after the surrender of these forces he became a prisoner of the Austrian Empire for the rest of the war.

During the Hundred Days, Mouton rallied to Napoleon and was made commander of the VI Infantry Corps which he led in the battles of Ligny and Waterloo.

He was elected to the House of Representatives from 1828 to 1830 as a liberal, and, in 1830, he joined the July Revolution as commander of the National Guard.