[citation needed] After service in the colonies, he married a wealthy Creole, Geneviève Gillot L'Étang.

After his return to France, he purchased the post of lieutenant of the Swiss Guard of the count of Provence.

[4] Minister of War in February 1793, he denounced his old commander, Charles François Dumouriez, to the Convention, and was one of the four deputies sent to watch him.

He followed Louis XVIII to exile in Ghent, and after the second restoration was made marquis and marshal of France (1816).

Tableaux des Armées Françaises pendant les Guerres de la Révolution.