LEBRUN, or LE BRUN, CHARLES FRAN •OIS. Duke the Piacenza 11739-1824). A French born at Saint-Sauveur-Landelin. in the Department of Manche. Ile began public life as secretary to the future Chancellor Mau peon, was made inspector of the Crown lands, and indirectly exercised great influence on the policy of the Ministry of Louis XV. After the dismissal of the Maupeon :Ministry. in 1774, Lebrun was in retirement till 17s9. At the out break of the Revolution he wrote a pamphlet eillitACd La roix du Citoyen, and was elected to the States-General, and in the Constituent Assembly he spoke often on matters of finance. He was made Governor of the Department of Seine-et-Oise in 1791, and distinguished him self by an orderly and vigorous administra tion. Twice arrested during the Terror. fie was freed in 1795, and elected Deputy to the Council of Five liundred, becoming president in the following year. In 1799 be was re6lected, ac quired a commanding influence in that body, and controlled its financial legislation. After the
18th Brumaire Napoleon made Lebrun Third Consul for his services during the coup (Vaal. In 1805 he negotiated tlw union of the Ligurian Reimblie with the French Empire, and was made Duke of Piacenza. In 1807 he reorganized the ('our des Comptes (the exchequer), but on the abolition of the tribunat by the Emperor retired to private life. Ile was called back in 1810 at the age of seventy-one to govern Holland after the abdication of Louis Bonaparte. Ile returned to Paris in 1813, and soon after, for his services to the Bourbons, was raised to the peerage. The went over. however, to Napoleon during the Hundred Days, and on the return of the Bour bons his name was struck from the list of peers, but restored in 1819. Lebrun published t ran slit- I lions cif Tasso's Gcrusalenpne Liberata, the Iliad, 4 and the Odyssey. His Memoirs appeared in 1829.