“ Deserting with some of his companions shortly before the battle of Buxar (1764) , he became military instructor to various native princes, organizing successively the forces of Shuja-ud-Dowlah, nawab of Oudh, and of the Jats and Rohillas. He took service under the emperor Shah Alam in 1772, and when that prince was defeated at Delhi by the Mahrattas, Madec rejoined his own countrymen in Pondicherry, where he took an active part in the defence of the town (1778) . After the capitulation of Pondicherry he returned to France with a considerable fortune, and died there in 1784. ”