GUILLAUME

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• MARIE

MARIE

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• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

ANNE

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• GUILLAUME MARIE ANNE BRUNE (1763-1815)

BRUNE (1763-1815)  , marshal of France, the son of an advocate, was born at Brives-la-Gaillarde (Correze), on the 13th of March 1763 . Before the Revolution he went to Paris to study law, and here he became a political journalist, a Jacobin and a friend of Danton . He was appointed in 1793 to a superior command in the army direct from civil life, and as a general of brigade he took part in the fighting of the 13th Vendemiaire . In 1796 he fought under Bonaparte in Italy, and was promoted general of division for good service in the field . In r 708 he commanded the French army which occupied Switzer-land, and in the following year he was in command of the French troops in Holland . His defence of Amsterdam against the Anglo-Russian expedition under the duke of York was completely successful; the invaders were defeated, and compelled, after a miserable retreat, to re-embark . He rendered further good service in Vendee and in Italy, and was made a marshal by Napoleon on the assumption by the latter of the imperial title in 1804 . In 1807 Brune held a command in North Germany, but he was not afterwards employed during the First Empire . It is said that he was accused of venality, and on that account disgraced, but of this there is no proof . He was recalled to active service during the Hundred Days, and as commander of the army of the Var he defended the south of France against the Austrians . He was murdered by royalists during the White Terror at Avignon on the 2nd of August 1815 . See Notice historique sur la vie politique et militaire du marechal Brune (Paris, 1821), and Vermeil de Conchard, L'Assassinat du marechal Brune (Paris, 1887) .