On 7 July 1807 Morand was named a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. After the Treaty of Tilsit, his division formed the garrison of Warsaw. There, at a ball organised by Frederick Augustus, Duke of Warsaw in December 1807, he met Emilia, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Count Parys, a Polish aristocrat and colonel in the Saxon army. Morand was smitten, and proposed soon afterwards. The couple were married in a civil service on 10 January 1810, with Davout and Savary as witnesses, and in a religious service four days later at the Church of the Holy Cross in the presence of Prince Poniatowski. Napoleon sent the newlyweds a gift of jewellery and 30,000 gold francs. On 24 June 1808, Morand was named a "Comte de l'Empire".