Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Laurent soja ne mai sauki a farkon juyin juya halin Faransa a 1789. Bisa ga ayyukan da ya dace, an ci gaba da shi a matsayin brigadier janar a 1794 kuma ya yi aiki a wasu rundunonin soja daban-daban a yakin Faransa da Farko na Farko.
da kuma ƙungiyoyi biyu. Ya kasance a yakin Valmy. Ya kuma shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na farko da na biyu a Lines na Weissenburg a 1793, da kuma yaƙe-yaƙe a Yaƙin Saverne da Landau tare da Sojojin Moselle; an ji masa rauni sau biyu a kafa, sau ɗaya yana tafiya tsakanin Sluis inda yake da hedikwata, da Brussels. Yana da alhakin kare bakin teku na Zeeland. Ya yi aiki ba tare da tsayawa ba har zuwa Yarjejeniyar Campo Formio, duk da raunin da ya ji a kafa, sau da yawa a layin gaba. An sanya shi Kwamandan Legion of Honor a kan shawarar Jean François Aimé Dejean Yuni 1804. Daga baya ya yi aiki a sashen Jemmapes.