 General Précy met with a number of foreign diplomats and traveled to England in 1796, then Vienna, and back to Switzerland.He married on 25 May 1797 in Surce with Jeanne-Marie Chavanne, widow of Perrin de Noailly.Fleeing Switzerland on the approach of the army of the Directory in 1797, he migrated to Überlingen and then to Augsburg, which he departed after the defeat of the Russians.