Drum of the Grenoble artillery. He participated in the siege of Toulon, and Bonaparte appreciated him for his audacity. He sustains the fire of the Austrians at Marengo and thus decides victory, he will receive a saber of honor. He will be captured during a battle, but he is freed in time to replace Bernadotte in Friedland. He makes the campaign of Russia and fights in Leipzig. He will vote for death during Ney's trial, he is also Minister of War in 1821.
At the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, Felipe V he had had to give up his Italian possessions (Sardinia, Sicily, Naples, Milan and the Presidios of Tuscany) as part of the price to be recognized as king of Spain and the Indies. However, he never resigned himself to the loss of it and aspir