Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te pakarutanga o te French Revolution i te tau 1789, ka hoki mai a Gazan ki Grasse ka uru atu ki te National Guard. I te tau 1790, ka riro ia hei rangatira, a, i te tau 1791, he koromatua tuarua o te roopu o nga kaitautoko o te rohe o te Var. I te tau 1792, i te whakapuakitanga o
I te pakanga ki a Austria, ka tukuna ia ki te 27th Regiment. I mahi tuatahi tana rerenga ki Strasbourg, engari i te marama o Tihema 1793, i uru ki te Pakanga o Wissembourg. I te Mei 1794, ka noho a Gazan hei rangatira o te 54th Demi-Brigade hou. I te 4 o Hurae, i whakaekehia e ia nga Prussians i Kuppenheim ma te whakahau i ana kaiwaiata ki te patu i te whakapae, me te whakapono ki nga Prussians he iti ake te tokomaha. I whakatairangahia ia ki te koronel brigade i te 11 o Hurae ka arahi i ana hoia ki te wikitoria ki nga Prussians i Trippstadt.