BEURNONVILLE, PIERRE DE RUEL, MARQUIS DE (1752-1821), French general. Minister of war in Feb. 1793, he denounced his old commander, C. F. Dumouriez, to the Con vention, and was one of the four deputies sent to watch him. Given over by him to the Austrians on April 3, 1793, Beurnon ville was not exchanged until Nov. 1795. He entered the service again, and was appointed inspector of infantry of the army of England in 1798. In 180o he was sent as ambassador to Berlin, in 1802 to Madrid. Napoleon made him a senator and count of the empire. A member of the provisional government in 1814, he followed Louis XVIII. to Ghent during the Hundred Days and after the restoration was made marquis and marshal of France.
See A. Chaquet, Les Guerres de la Revolution (1886) .