Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Jean Christophe Collin, wanda ake kira Verdière, shi ne babban janar na janar na Faransa a cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na juyin juya halin Faransa da yaƙe-yaƙe na Napoleon. An haife shi a ranar 18 ga Janairu 1754 a Paris. Dan Christopher Collin (Colin) na La Verdière, ya kasance mai sa kai a cikin Dragoons a 1767. Ya zama kyaftin na Hussars na Lauzun a 1778, wani colonel na Paris Cavalry a 1789, kuma wani brigadier a 1795. Ya taimaka wajen murkushe tawayen masarauta na 5 ga Oktoba 1795, kuma ya shiga Sojojin Italiya a 1796. Ya umurci garkuwar a Paris a 1797, kuma an nada shi Janar na division a shekara mai zuwa. Daga baya, ya shiga cikin yakin da Sojojin Danube suka yi a 1799, a yakin Ostrach
kuma Stockach; daga baya a wannan shekarar, ya shiga cikin kamfen din Andre Massena a arewa maso gabashin Switzerland, a Yaƙin farko na Zurich. Ya kasance wani ɓangare na Grand Army na 1802 <unk> 1806, kuma ya ji rauni a yakin Jena-Auerstadt. Ya mutu 'yan kwanaki bayan yaƙin, a ranar 18 ga Oktoba, 1806.