Trained as a physician, he studied medicine at the University of Montpellier before becoming a member of the French National Guard in 1789.

In the emergency, Goguet cooperated with Eustache Charles d'Aoust to win the Battle of Peyrestortes.

[2] Goguet transferred to the Army of the North with the rank of general of division.

During the retreat, a mutinous group of soldiers fired on Goguet and fatally wounded him.

Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, then a chef de brigade (colonel), harangued the guilty regiment and convinced the troops to arrest the assassins.