[1] His older brothers Jean and Claude were also army officers, and together the three men were known as les trois Horaces ("the three Horatii").

At the battle of Wagram (5–6 July 1809), while his regiment attacked a battery, Corbineau's right knee was shattered by a musket ball, necessitating the amputation of his leg at the thigh, putting an end to his military career.

Corbineau recovered in hospital alongside his friend Pierre Yrieix Daumesnil, who had suffered a similar wound.

In honour of Corbineau's and Daumesnil's service, Napoleon left them on the roll of the Chasseurs, despite the fact that neither served with the regiment again.

In 1810 Corbineau married Reine Rose Kermarec de Travrou, the daughter of a former member of Parlement of Rennes, and had a son, Eugène-Hercule, and a daughter, Adèle-Marie, who married the Comte de Champagny (son of the Duke of Cadore) in Paris on 30 July 1836.