 Promoted brigadier general in the Army of the Coasts of Brest on 15 May 1793, the Executive Council () ordered him to stay in Lille to assist Favart () in ""operations having defence implications for this town by an officer who was already familiar with it, as a civic, energetic and militarily well-qualified partner"".Dismissed for a first time by Duhem and Lesage-Senault because of a dispute with the general Lamarlière, he was imprisoned for indiscipline.But Robespierre himself took the Lavalette case to the National Convention and the general was freed of the charges the 24 July.