As superior officer, he was noticed in Lille, in Antwerp, and in Lawfeld; was made a prisoner of war in Quesnoy on 13 September 1793 and was taken to Hungary. He was exchanged during year IV of the French Republican Calendar, and served in the inferior army until its suppression, but remained in Paris, from the month of "vendémiaire" of year V to the 30th of "germinal", year VII, as leader of the half-brigade during the Battle of Montebello (1800).