Employed at Lorient by representatives of the people in the West for supplying Lorient Belle-Ile, Port-Louis and Croix, 15 February 1793.
Authorizing the Chief of Army coast, 25 February 1793.
Authorizing the Chief of Brest and Côtes de Cherbourg on 1 May 1793. This service meets the 13th Division of 20 September 1793.
Suspended by the representatives of the people and placed under arrest on 2 December 1793, he returned to his post by the same representatives on 29 December 1793.
Authorizing the Chief of the Army of Sambre and Meuse, 15 April 1795. Spent in that capacity in the army coast of Brest, 19 June 1795.
Cisalpine Minister extraordinary in 1800, Chairman of the Extraordinary Commission of Government of the Cisalpine Republic and President of the Consulta.
State Councilor extraordinary service, 22 September 1800; Replaced in the inspectorate, 19 September 1801.
Commissioner General of the six camps, 22 June 1803.
Chairman of the Electoral College of the Yonne, 25 February 1805.
He died on 25 May 1806 in his hotel, the current 8 Rue Monsieur in Paris 7th then 6 rue de Frejus. Napoleon did make a grandiose funeral on 27 May, attended the Senate, and the principal dignitaries of the Empire. After the ceremony, which took place in the Church of Foreign MissionsRue du Bac, his body was transported to the Pantheon. His eulogy was delivered by the Gaspard Monge, President of the Senate who traced his long career. However, when a friend of the family seeking a pension for Petiet's widow, the Emperor refused stating It was the Senate and not the Emperor who awarded a pension to his widow of 6,000 f. Later when a prisoner on St. Helena, Napoleon seems to have had a change of heart for he wrote:
Auguste-Louis, his youngest son, became a general and politician of the nineteenth century, and a Baron of the Empire in 1814.
Another son, Sylvain, wrote Souvenirs d'un page de l'empereur in which he describes his father's career, and that his father married a woman from Brittany.
Legacy
Fifty years after the death of the surveyor-general on 13 February 1854, Sainte-Beuve wrote in his Lectures on Monday: At the time of the coup d'état Fructidor, he warned his friends in the passage of Hoche's troops within the "constitutional radius" no troops should cross without the permission of the legislature. This leads to the arrest of the Executive to the rostrum of the Five Hundred, 30 Messidor by Delahaye. At the time of the coup d'état of 30 Messidor with Lucien Bonaparte, Jourdan and Augereau, he will ask for their resignation Larevelliere and Merlin. In a letter dated 17 October 1799, to Caesar de la Tour-Maubourg, Lafayette wrote: It is true that as minister of war, Petiet had signed the appointment of Bonaparte at the head of the army of Italy and Moreau to the head of the Rhine. In a note to General Regnier, Moreau says: In his memoires, his son Auguste-Louis wrote:
