Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Farawa a 1810, Abbé ya yi aiki a Yakin Peninsular a Spain. Ya yi yaƙi a ƙarƙashin Marshal Louis Gabriel Suchet a Falset, Tortosa, Tarragona, da Montserrat. An daukaka shi zuwa janar na division a 1811. Ya jagoranci wani bangare a karkashin Marshal Nicolas Soult a Pyrenees, San Marcial
, da Bidassoa, da Nivelle, da Nive, da kuma Bayonne. Ya shiga Napoleon a 1815 kuma ya yi yaƙi da Austrians kafin ya yi ritaya daga sojojin a 1816. An sake kunna shi daga 1830 zuwa 1832 lokacin da ya sake yin ritaya. Ya mutu a shekara ta 1834. ABBE yana ɗaya daga cikin sunayen da aka rubuta a ƙarƙashin Arc de Triomphe, a kan Shafi na 36.