Tuhia he tomokanga mo tenei irava - I whakanohoia ki te prytanée i Saint-Cyr, i uru ia ki te ope taua hei tangata takitahi i roto i te 1st Cuirassier Regiment i te 1803 ka uru ki te kura hoia i Fontainebleau i te 23 o Oketopa 1804, ka waiho hei kaitiaki tuarua i te 15th Regiment o te Raina. I mahi ia i taua rēhimene i Austerlitz
, nga pakanga Prussian me Polish, i whakahuatia i roto i nga karere i Austerlitz me te whara i Jena (1806). I whakatairangahia ia ki te rangatira i te 30 o Noema 1806 i whakawhiwhia ki a ia te ripeka o te Légion d'honneur i Eylau (1807).