 He was later deputy of the "noblesse" in the Estates-General, and was president of the National Constituent Assembly from 19 June to 3 July 1791 and from 31 July to 14 August 1791.Made a general in 1792 (during the French Revolutionary Wars), he refused, in June 1793, to become Minister of War.He was named General-in-Chief of the Army of the Rhine in 1793.