Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Ministan Yaki bai yarda da matsayin Lespinasse ba kuma ya ƙi yin aiki da shi na ɗan lokaci. A ƙarshe an canja shi zuwa "Sojojin Italiya". Ba da daɗewa ba bayan ya isa Italiya, ya tilasta wa sansanin soja na Milan ya mika wuya a cikin kwanaki 11. Lespinasse ya zama shugaban dakarun sojojin tare da Géraud Duroc yana aiki a matsayin mataimakinsa. A ranar 8 ga Yuni, shi, Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier da François, Marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat sun bincika sansanin soja na Mantua. Ya yi yaƙi a yakin Castiglione, Rovereto
da Arcole da kuma Siege na Mantua. An ambace shi sau da yawa a cikin labaran Napoleon Bonaparte kamar yadda aka "rufe shi da ɗaukaka". Lespinasse ya tafi tafiyar Louis-Alexandre Berthier zuwa Rome bayan kisan Mathurin-Léonard Duphot. Wannan a watan Janairu na shekara ta 1798. A wannan shekarar ne aka nada shi shugaban mayakan "Sojojin Ingila". Daga baya, shi da Gabriel Marie Joseph, Count d'Hédouville sun gudanar da shawarwari tare da 'yan tawaye a Brittany.