Brune, Guillaume

Brune, Guillaume

▪ French commander
born March 13, 1763, Brive-la-Gaillarde, Fr.
died Aug. 2, 1815, Avignon

      the only one of Napoleon's marshals associated with the French Revolutionary Reign of Terror. A distinguished cavalry commander, he consolidated his reputation as defender of Holland against the Allies.

      At first dedicated to a literary career, Brune became associated in Paris with the Revolutionary leader Georges Danton, for whom he wrote a pamphlet on military matters. He then became a commissaire for purges of the army of the north and later escorted terrorist officials to Bordeaux (where he is credited with trying to restrain the terrorism). The rumour that he was responsible for the murder in 1792 of the Princesse de Lamballe, an intimate companion of Queen Marie-Antoinette, led to his death at the hands of a royalist mob 23 years later.

      Under the Directory, Brune served in Paris with Paul Barras and with Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I). After three months' service in Italy (1797), he was made general of division. Barras used him to effect compliance to the French in the Helvetian, Cisalpine, and Batavian republics. Brune defeated the Anglo-Russian army in Holland at Bergen and at Castricum (September–October 1799). Sent by Napoleon to end the Italian campaign, Brune fought a battle against the Austrians in December 1800. He was made a marshal in 1804. After serving as ambassador to Constantinople and returning to take charge of some coastal defenses, he cleared the Swedes from Stralsund in 1807 but was then abruptly removed from employment, for reasons never divulged. During the Hundred Days (1815), Napoleon sent Brune to defend Provence (which was strongly royalist). When hostilities ended, a mob in Avignon attacked and killed him.

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