After his return to France he was appointed commander of the demi-brigade of the Ille-et-Vilaine "Département" of the "Armée des côtes de Brest" on 16 December 1795; of the Manche département on 12 October 1797; of the Morbihan département on 1 January 1799; and of the Côtes-du-Nord département on 26 March 1800. In the latter two commands he took part in the third phase of the so-called "Chouannerie". He commanded a column that on 5 August 1799 defeated a far smaller force of the rebelling Chouans in and near La Selle-en-Luitré, but failed to capture their leaders. In October 1799 he chased the rebel leader La Nougarède, who had beaten the republican forces at Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier on 5 October 1799, with a column of 4,000 soldiers from Rennes, but La Nougarède outwitted him by dispersing his own guerilla force, and then harassed Roulland's force with pinprick attacks.