Life

After a short career in the cavalry (which he left due to a duel

Duel

A duel is an arranged engagement in combat between two individuals, with matched weapons in accordance with agreed-upon rules.Duels in this form were chiefly practised in Early Modern Europe, with precedents in the medieval code of chivalry, and continued into the modern period especially among...

) then in the naval artillery in Brest

Brest, France

Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...

, he was taken on by Antoine Choquet de Lindu

Antoine Choquet de Lindu

Antoine Choquet de Lindu was a French architect and military engineer in the service of the French Navy-Life:...

 as a draughtsman in 1777 thanks to his qualifications as an architect. In 1791 he succeeded Choquet de Lindu as director of the maritime works at Brest, a post he held until 1796.

In 1795, he was elected as a député to the Council of Five Hundred

Council of Five Hundred

The Council of Five Hundred , or simply the Five Hundred was the lower house of the legislature of France during the period commonly known as the Directory , from 22 August 1795 until 9 November 1799, roughly the second half of the period generally referred to as the...

 and there specialised in questions relating to the French Navy

French Navy

The French Navy, officially the Marine nationale and often called La Royale is the maritime arm of the French military. It includes a full range of fighting vessels, from patrol boats to a nuclear powered aircraft carrier and 10 nuclear-powered submarines, four of which are capable of launching...

. In 1798 he was made guardian of the palace of Versailles

Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles , or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles....

, which some people wanted to demolish in order to re-use the stone but which Trouille instead proposed should house a number of artistic or administrative establishments. At the end of the Revolutionary period, he returned to Brest, rejoined the maritime works in 1800 and became their director again from 1814 to 1821. Among his surviving works are the Bâtiment aux Lions in the Brest Arsenal (1807–09) and the levelling of Île des Morts

Île des Morts

Île des Morts is a 7-hectare island in the Bay of Roscanvel, to the south-west of the roadstead of Brest, between the Quélern peninsula and Île Longue. It is 26m above sea level at its highest point.-History:...

to build powder magazines there (1808).

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