Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan kammala karatunsa daga makarantun soja na Faransa, a cikin 1806 ya zama kyaftin na grenadiers kuma mataimakin Marshal Nicolas Oudinot. Don sa hannu a kamfen na 1806-07 ya karɓi umarnin Virtuti Militari da Légion d'honneur. A ranar 30 ga Janairu 1808 ya zama kyaftin na 1st Infantry Regiment na Duchy na Warsaw. Daga nan aka nada shi daya daga cikin kwamandojin runduna hudu na Rundunar Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojojin Sojoji. Ya yi yaƙi a cikin rundunar anti-guerrilla karkashin jagorancin Jean-Baptiste Bessières, gami da Somosierra
, kuma ya raka Napoleon a kan dawowarsa daga Spain zuwa Faransa.