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Brune, Guillaume Marie-Anne

Guillaume Brune

Born

13 March 1763

Died

2 August 1815

A printer and journalist of the Cordeliers quarter and a friend of Danton, Brune enlisted in the Paris National Guard in 1789 and became a general of brigade in 1793, serving against the federalists of Normandy. Sidelined after Danton’s fall, he returned under Barras, served in Italy, and commanded the invasion that overthrew the Bernese oligarchy and established the Helvetic Republic in 1798. In Holland the following year he defeated the Anglo-Russian expedition at Bergen and Castricum and forced its re-embarkation. Given the Army of the West in January 1800, he obtained the submission of the Vendéan chiefs and of Cadoudal. Made a marshal in 1804 and disgraced in 1807, he was murdered by a royalist crowd at Avignon on 2 August 1815 and his body thrown into the Rhône.

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