"The Unknown Marshal"

1754 May 31 - Born at Grenade (Haute-Garonne)
1780 July 6 - Sous-lieutenant in Regiment du Lyonnais
1782 - Transfers to Grenadiers Royaux du Quercy
1786 - February 14 - Marries Helene-Catherine de Grenier at Montech
1789 July - Lieutenant-colonel, Garde Nationale, at Montech
1791 September 5 - Elected deputy to the Legislative Assembly
1792 September 16 - Lieutenant-colonel in the Legion des Pyrennees
1793 September 18 - Promoted general de brigade (provisional); wounded in the thigh
1793 December 7 - Promoted general de division; confirmed on 23rd
1794 November 18 - Appointed commander in chief after the death of Dugommier at La Montagne Noire
1794 November 27 - Captures Figuieras and besieges Rosas
1795 February 3 - Captures Rosas
1795 May 6 - Defeated at Bascara and replaced by Scherer (30th)
1795 September 15 - Appointed commander in chief of l'Armee des Cotes de Brest
1795 November 26 - Appointed ambasador of the French Republic at Madrit (until December 1797)
1798 October 14 - After short retirement, sent to l'Armee d'Italie
1799 August 15 - Commands the left wing at Novi; severely wounded, and prisoner for a year
1801 - Commands the 10th military division in Toulouse
1801 April 12 - Becomes a senator
1802 September 11 - Appointed Commissaire Extraordinaire
1802 October 27 - Appointed vice president of the Senate
1804 May 19 - Created marechal d'Empire (seventeenth in order of appoitments)
1806 September 18 - Made governor general of Parma and Plasencia
1808 March 19 - Created comte d'Empire; governor of Naples
1813 March 27 - Retired
1814 April 22 - Appointed Commissaire Extraordinaire du Roi in the 1st military division
1814 May 31 - Made president of a commission appointed to examine the situation of former officers
1814 June - Made Chevalier of St.Louis, then a peer of France
1815 April 10 - Dismissed from the dignity of Marshal by Napoleon
1815 July 24 - Restored to rang of Marshal by Louis XVIII
1816 January 10 - Made governor of the 1st military division
1817 August 2 - Created marquis; Grand Cross of the Order of St.Louis from August 24
1818 December 25 - Died in Paris, aged 74 years

by Gipsy