He fought in all Louis XIV's wars — the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession. He became the colonel of the Royal Dragoon Regiment from May 1679 to April 1693 and took part in the sieges of Limbourg, Condé, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Luxembourg and the battle of Steinkerque, where he was wounded in the arm by a musket shot. In March 1693 he was made a maréchal de camp and in January 1702 a lieutenant general.