Empire General D'Aboville

Student sub-lieutenant in the artillery school on 12 March 1792 , he came out on September 1 following the rank of lieutenant in the 7th Regiment of Artillery .
After the campaign of 1792 to Year II in the Italian army , he obtained the rank of captain . Suspended from his duties at the army of the Moselle as noble October 6, 1793, he was reinstated Nov. 25, 1794, and had served in the armies of the Rhine and Moselle and Italy , Year VI of the Year IX.

Battalion Chief 2 October 1802, he became, May 23, 1803, Staff of the 2nd regiment of horse artillery , with whom he made the campaigns of years XII and XIII to the army called in England. He received the decoration of the Legion of Honour in the year XII.

It was part of an expedition to Martinique under the orders of Law of Lauriston , and ordered to return the battery of thirty-six of Bucentaur in the battle engaged the French squadron with that of Admiral Calder .

Returning to France in June, he received orders to go to the Grand Army , where he was successively the rank of colonel and one officer of the Legion of Honour (1807) for saving, on the banks of the Passarge , the artillery of the 6th corps when he was about to be taken by a pulk [1] Cossacks.

Appointed Staff of the horse artillery of the Imperial Guard , the 13 September 1808 , he was particularly noted at the Battle of Wagram , at the head of a company of thirty pieces, and had won the right arm by a bullet. The Emperor made him a brigadier general on July 9 1809 , gave him command of the artillery school of La Fere and gave him the title of Baron of the Empire .

Called in 1814 to command the artillery for the defense of Paris, he stoutly resisted the efforts of the enemy, and caused him considerable losses.

Written off activity during the first abdication of Napoleon , Louis XVIII gave him the 5 August 1814 the decoration of St. Louis and the Cross of Commander.

On March 20 , General Aboville, who was at La Fleche when the generals Lefebvre Desnouettes and Lallemand approached it, forced them to withdraw. However, he obtained an audience with the Emperor, who charged in April 1815 to organize the Coast Guard of Havre .

After the Second Restoration , the king gave him the title of Commander of the Order of St. Louis, and when he becomes eligible for retirement granted him a pension of 2,000 francs on his casket.

He died on 20 July 1843 .