Career
An enseigne de vaisseau on board Naturaliste, the Cap Saint-Cricq was named after him. He was condemned to have his sword broken, declared unworthy to serve, condemned unanimously to three years in prison and ejection from the Légion d"honneur. In the imperial decree of 30 March 1815 it was stated that this sentence was for not having taken part in the second engagement in which Louisiana Renommée surrendered and for having abandoned this frigate by a poor and irresolute manoeuvre.
He was promoted back up to Capitaine de Vaisseau and to the rank which he had occupied in the navy lists, by ordnance of 21 April 1814, but on 30 March 1815 during the Hundred Days Bonaparte accepted his naval minister Denis Decrès"s suggestion and issued an imperial decree which annulled the 1814 ordnance and confirmed the court martial"s sentence.