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He joined the French army when he was 16.
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He studied to be an artilleryman and an officer and graduated from college in 1785.
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To help the budget crisis in 1787 the royal government proposed a series of major reforms concerning taxation and reducing expenditures. These proposals met with the furious resistance both from a special Assembly of Notables and from the King's own law courts, particulary the Parlement of Paris.
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The Bastille prison was attacked by an angry mob on this day. They wanted the weapons, ammo, and they freed the prisoners.
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Louis XVI gets deposed on August 1792. The following year, revolutionaries executed him and Marie Antoinette.
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The Committee of Public Safety was created by the National Convention of 1793. Originally consisting of 9 members of the convention, it was formed as an administrative body to supervise and expedite the work of the executive bodies of the convention and of the government ministers appointed by the convention.
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After the overthrow on July 27, 1794, of Robespierre and his collegues by their enemies at the convention, power in the government was restored to the convention. The Committee of Public Safety continued to exist until 1795.
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He briefly returned to his power in his Hundred days campaign.
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After the defeat at the Battle of Waterloo he was exiled to the island of Saint Helena where he died at age 51.
