The Battle of Nice: Du Merbion and the Guillotine

When napoleon arrived in nice, du merbion was disengaged. His strategy for outliving his predecessors seems to have been staying in bed as much as possible and giving the representatives on mission whatever they wanted. When sagoceti and robespierre put napoleon's plan in front of him, du Merbion signed it. But who can blame him? As a former aristocrat and a career army officer, he had no doubt lost countless friends, colleagues and relatives to the guillotine.