Captain Coignet - A Soldier of Napoleon"s Imperial Guard from the Italian Campaign to Waterloo CAPTAIN COIGNET. A "grouser" tells his thrilling story of life in the Imperial Guard Jean-Roche Coignet"s story embraces much that typifies the revolutionary French and Napoleonic eras. Coignet recounts his life from abused childhood to peasant worker, then to enlistment in the army-where an exploit of remarkable heroism, early in his military career, earns him recognition and sets him on a path o... Full description