His family was Italian in origin, dating back to a lieutenant of Desiderius, king of the Lombards.
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He was involved in the Hanover campaigns (1757–1759) and participated in the last battles of the Seven Years' War.
Viennet was the son of National Convention-member Jacques Joseph Viennet and nephew of the priest Louis Esprit Viennet who, aged 40, was made curate of the église Saint-Merri in Paris and who in the early phase of the French Revolution in 1790 preached a sermon on the civil constitution of the clergy.
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