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After the battle of Pharsalus, he was commissioned to transport some recently levied troops to Illyricum.
Under Napoleon, of whom in 1806 he made a nude statue now at Dijon, Houdon received little employment; he was, however, commissioned to execute the colossal reliefs intended for the decoration of the column of the "Grand Army" at Boulogne (which ultimately found a different destination); he also produced a statue of Cicero for the senate, and various busts, amongst which may be cited those of Marshal Ney, of Josephine and of Napoleon himself, by whom Houdon was rewarded with the legion of honour.
He was commissioned by Gregory IX.
In 1783 he was commissioned a brevet brigadier-general in the continental army.
