On September 22, 1792, French troops invaded the Duchy of Savoy, which became the department of Mont-Blanc. The Savoyard officers of the Sardinian king, who had left to defend the kingdom out of a sense of loyalty, ended up by being included on the list of émigrés, though they had never been French. Disputes arose over the alleged illegality of this decision, together with efforts to have these officer’s names removed from the emigre lists to recover the use of their confiscated properties. The succession of regimes from 1792 to 1802, however, had created significant legal and political complications, which largely ended with Bonaparte’s amnesty for the émigrés on 6 Floréal, Year X. The personal files of these Sardinian officers preserved in the French National Archives reveal their struggles to adapt to ever-changing political currents against the emigres, and attest to their challenges to secure a favorable legal decision far from easy to obtain.