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LEBRUN, CHARLES FRANCCOIS

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LEBRUN, See also:CHARLES FRANCCOIS , duc de Plaisance (1739-1824), See also:French statesman, was See also:born at St-Sauveur-Lendelin (See also:Manche) on the ,9th of See also:March 1739, and iii 1762 made his first See also:appearance as a lawyer at See also:Paris. He filled the posts successively of censeur royale (1766) and of inspector See also:general of the domains of the See also:crown (1768); he was also one of the See also:chief advisers of the See also:chancellor See also:Maupeou, took See also:part in his struggle against the parlements, and shared in his downfall in 1774. He then devoted himself to literature, translating See also:Tasso's Gerusalemme liberate; (1774), and the Iliad (1776). At the outset of the Revolution he foresaw its importance, and in the Voix du citoyen, which he published in 1789, predicted the course which events would take. In the Constituent See also:Assembly, where he sat as See also:deputy for Dourdan, he professed liberal views, and was the proposer of various See also:financial See also:laws. He then became See also:president of the See also:directory of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, and in 1795 was elected as a deputy to the See also:Council of Ancients. After the coup d'etat of the 18th See also:Brumaire in the See also:year VIII. (9th See also:November 1799), Lebrun was made third See also:consul. In this capacity he took an active part in the reorganization of See also:finance and of the See also:administration of the departments of See also:France. In 1804 he was appointed See also:arch-treasurer of the See also:empire, and in 8o5–18o6 as See also:governor-general of See also:Liguria effected its See also:annexation to France. He opposed See also:Napoleon's restoration of the noblesse, and in 18o8 only reluctantly accepted the See also:title of duc de Plaisance (See also:Piacenza). He was next employed in organizing the departments which were formed in See also:Holland, of which he was governor-general from 1811 to 1813.

Although to a certain extent opposed to the despotism of the See also:

emperor, he was not in favour of his deposition, though he accepted the fait accompli of the Restoration in See also:April 1814. See also:Louis XVIII. made him a peer of France; but during the See also:Hundred Days he accepted from Napoleon the See also:post of See also:Grand See also:Master of the university. On the return of the Bourbons in 1815 he was consequently suspended from the See also:House of Peers, but was recalled in 1819. He died at St Mesmes (Seine-et-Oise) on the 16th of See also:June 1824. He had been made a member of the Academie See also:des See also:Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1803. See M. de Caumont la Force, L'Architresorier Lebrun (Paris, 1907) ; M. See also:Marie du Mesnil, Memoire sur le See also:prince Le Brun, duc de Plaisance (Paris, 1828) ; Opinions, rapports et choix d'ecrits politiques de C. F. Lebrun (1829), edited, with a See also:biographical See also:notice, by his son See also:Anne-Charles Lebrun.

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