Lawyer wire, he
is an initially journalist printer. With this occasion, it binds
with Danton, with whom he is member of the club of Cordeliers.
In 1791, it enters to the national guard of Paris then to the
2nd battalion of volunteers of the Seine and Oise. The 13-Vendémiaire,
it takes part in the repression of the royalist insurrection,
at the sides of Barred and the Bonaparte General. He is named
in Italy and is present at Rivoli (January 14, 1797); he is promoted
major general in 1797, and is placed at the head of the avant-garde.
After a short mission in Switzerland, the Directory names it
controlling army of Holland. September 19, 1799, Brune overcomes
the Russo-English forces with Bergen. This victory is worth to
him to be named controlling as a head of the Army of the West
with mission of pacifying the Vendée. A little later the
Chouans heads sign a peace treaty. In August 1800, Brown share
to replace Masséna with the head of the Army of Italy.
In 1802, Bonaparte, First Consul, starts to join together all
the capacities; he moves away this republican convinced by appointing
it ambassador in Turkey, but he includes it in the list of the
marshals of 1804. The year following, Brown, income in France,
is general as a head of the future Grande Armée at this
meeting in Boulogne. In 1806, he is a governor of the Hanseatic
cities.
At the time of the campaign of Prussia in 1807, it seizes without
blow to férir of Straslund. However, instead of praises,
it attracts itself the lightnings of the Emperor bus in the convention
passed then with the Swedes, it speaks about the French Army
and not from the Army of Its Imperial Majesty and Royale.Napoléon
draws aside it definitively.
As
of April 1, 1814, Brune means its agreement with the provisional
government. It is joined the Bourbons, which however balk to
accept its services. Brown then proposes them to Napoleon, when
this one returns from the island of Elba, in 1815. It is named
even of France during the Hundred Days. to the second Restoration,
it himself go to Paris to make again act of allegiance with new
capacity when it be recognize in the street of Avignon by some
Royalist, which it attack and it assassinate. Its body is then
thrown in the river without other form of lawsuit.
