Lariboisière's direction of artillery fire at the Battle of Austerlitz destroyed the ice covering the lake over which Russian army forces retreated.

His father, Ambroise Baston de Lariboisière, was lieutenant general of civil and criminal justice and the seneschal of Fougères.

[2] Baston de Lariboisière was cited as a distinguished officer at the outset of the French Revolution, for which he showed only moderate support.

[2] When Jean Baptiste Jourdan organized the Army of the Danube, Lariboisière received command of the artillery park.

Afterwards, Lariboisière was sent to northern Italy where he commanded the advance guard division; Jean Victor Moreau's right wing, with Lariboisière's infantry and artillery, crossed the Ticino river at Pavia, marched up the left bank of the Po River and took position beneath Alessandria; there, he protected Moreau's flank from Russian skirmishers sufficiently for Moreau to establish a large train of artillery in Turin and to strengthen the French positions between the Po and the Tanaro river.

[8] Baston de Lariboisière commanded the artillery of the French IV Corps for the 1805 campaign of the War of the Third Coalition.

[10] In the Battle of Jena-Auerstadt, Baston de Lariboisière successfully repelled several infantry charges with artillery fire.

Subsequently, Napoleon raised him to major general and appointed him to command the Imperial Guard Artillery at the Battle of Eylau, in February 1807.

[2] In planning the Russian campaign, in 1812, Lariboisière immediately foresaw difficulties in transporting the requisite amount of artillery and ammunition the vast distance from the Nieman River into Russia.

[12] Despite heavy rain, the French arrived in Vilnius; despite the mud, the artillery was established before the battle and contributed to successful targeted fire.

He survived not only the Battle of Borodino in which his brother (Ferdinand) was killed but also the retreat from Moscow and the subsequent campaigns in Prussia and Saxony.