Under the orders of Admiral Pierre-Charles de Villeneuve, he took part in the naval battles of Cape Finisterre and Trafalgar. In 1807, he was transferred to the regiment of the Colonel Étienne Louis Malus in Strasbourg. He became in 1811 professor of military art at the École d’Application du Génie et de l’Artillerie in Metz until his death in 1833.