Guard until wounded in action at Pirna. In the following year he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor and was governor of the Castle of Compiègne. He joined Napoleon in the Hundred Days and became Chamberlain and a peer. Marked for punishment by the returning Bourbons, he was sent before a court-martial and only escaped condemnation through a technical flaw in the wording of the charge. The rest of his life was spent in retirement. He was the father of the painter Henri Delaborde. References Chandler, David. Dictionary of the Napoleonic Wars. New York: Macmillan, 1979. Chandler, David (ed.). Gray, Randal. Napoleon's Marshals, "Mortier: The Big Mortar." New York: Macmillan, 1987. Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998. Footnotes 1764 births 1833 deaths Military personnel from Dijon French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars French commanders of the Napoleonic Wars Commanders in the French Imperial Guard Grand Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Knights of the Order of Saint Louis Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe