On the day following the appointment of the Chief of Staff of France, the "freshly appointed" Marshal of the Second Empire was approved by the Ministry of War, recommended by Jerome Bonaparte.
In recognition of the outstanding contributions Saint Arno and Renio made to the French Army, General Saint Arno, Chief of Staff of France, and General Renio, Commander of Strasbourg, were awarded the rank of Marshal.
The news spread, causing an uproar in the entire French military community. Some generals opposed the awarding of the Marshal title to Saint Arno and Renio, and even some generals made an issue out of the awarding of the Marshal rank. They believed that awarding Saint Arno, who had not accomplished anything (referring to the achievements akin to Marshal Biron), the Marshal position was an insult to the title.
Faced with such baseless accusations, the newly appointed Chief of Staff, Imperial Reserve Marshal Saint Arno, was somewhat irritated.
