General Dupas

In 1811, General Dupas had married a certain Mademoiselle Raimond, niece of General Hulin. He had received a sabre of honour for having been among the first to cross the bridge at Lodi, and in consequence had become a member of Legion of Honour by right on the creation of the order. Dupas also had a medal as 'Vainqueur de la Bastille' for having distinguished himself at the attack on the fortress with the French Guards."

He joined the regiment of Piedmont (in the service of the King of Sardinia) as a dragoon at the age of fourteen years. In 1784, he transferred to the service of the Republic of Geneva, became an NCO, and bought himself out in 1786. He then entered the French service in the Swiss regiment of Châteauvieux, which was garrisoned in Corsica. Having returned to Paris in 1788, he was at the storming of the Bastille the following year, and, on 3 September, entered the Parisian National Guard. He left this on 25 April 1791 to become lieutenant-colonel in the legion of gendarmerie called "The Conquerors of the Bastille". Then, after the declaration of "la patrie en danger" he obtained permission from the Minister of War, Servan, to go and serve in the Allobroge Legion as adjutant-major. He thus took part in the invasion of Savoy (1792-93), and was for a short time ADC to General Carteaux at the siege of Toulon. Having returned to his unit after the dismissal of his general, he was with the Army of the Eastern Pyrenees in the Val d'Aran.

In Prussia and Poland in 1806-7 he took part in the siege of Stralsund and fought at Friedland, where he was mentioned in despatches as "having rendered the greatest services".

He was made a Knight of the Order of the Iron Crown on 25 December 1807, Count of the Empire on 29 January 1809, served with the Grande Armée during the campaign of 1809, at Passau, Ratisbon, Essling and Wagram. Having returned to France after the peace of Vienna, he remained in reserve until 1813, and was then called to command the 42nd division in the Corps of Observation at Mainz.

His infirmities obliged him to return to France, and he was invalided out on 25 November 1813.

He retired to his château of Ripaille, at Thonon, and died there on 6 March 1823.