Charles François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, prince de l'empire (19 March 1739 - 16 June 1824) was a French statesman. March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). ... Events March 20 - Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne, including the Koh-i-Noor September 9 - Stono Rebellion erupts near Charleston September 18 - Treaty of Belgrade signed October 3 - Treaty of Nissa signed October 23 - Great Britain declares war... June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1824 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The term statesman is a respectful term used to refer to diplomats, politicians, and other notable figures of state. ...

He was born at Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin (Manche), and in 1762 made his first appearance as a lawyer at Paris. He filled the posts successively of censeur du Roi (1766) and of inspector general of the domains of the crown (1768); he was also one of the chief advisers of the chancellor Maupeou, took part in his struggle against the parlements, and shared in his downfall in 1774. Manche is a French département in Normandy named after La Manche (the sleeve), which is the French name of the English Channel. ... 1762 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A lawyer or attorney at law is a person licensed by the state to advise clients in legal matters and represent them in courts of law (and in other forms of dispute resolution). ... The Eiffel Tower has become a symbol of Paris throughout the world. ... 1766 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (February 25, 1714 - July 29, 1792), chancellor of France, was the eldest son of René Charles de Maupeou (1688-1775), who was president of the parlement of Paris from 1743 to 1757. ... Parlements (pronounced in French) in ancien régime France — contrary to what their name would suggest to the modern reader — were not democratic or political institutions, but law courts . ... 1774 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

He then devoted himself to literature, translating Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata (1774), and the Iliad (1776). Torquato Tasso (March 11, 1544 - April 25, 1595) was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata (Jerusalem Delivered; 1575), in which he describes the imaginary combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem. ... 1774 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... The Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War and is, along with the Odyssey, one of the two major Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer, a blind Ionian poet. ...

At the outset of the French 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 Assembly, where he sat as deputy for Dourdan, he professed liberal views, and was the proposer of various financial laws. He then became president of the directory of Seine-et-Oise, and in 1795 was elected as a deputy to the Council of Ancients. After the coup d'etat of the 18 Brumaire in the year VIII (9-10 November 1799), Lebrun was made third consul. In this capacity he took an active part in the reorganization of finance and of the administration of the departments of France. In 1804 he was appointed arch-treasurer of the empire, and in 1805-1806 as governor-general of Liguria effected its annexation to France. The period of the French Revolution in the history of France covers the years between 1789 and 1799, in which democrats and republicans overthrew the absolute monarchy and the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring. ... 1789 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... A Constituent Assembly is a body elected with the express and limited purpose of drafting, and in some cases, adopting a constitution. ... Seine-et-Oise was a département of France encompassing the western, northern, and southern parts of the metropolitan area of Paris. ... 1795 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Council of Ancients or Council of Elders (French: Conseil des Anciens) was the upper house of the Directory (French: Directoire), the legislature of France from August 22, 1795 until November 9, 1799, roughly the second half of the period generally referred to as the French Revolution. ... A coup détat, or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government, usually done by a small group that just replaces the top power figures. ... 18 Brumaire, the coup of 18 Brumaire or sometimes simply Brumaire refers to the coup détat by which General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the government of the Directory to replace it by the Consulate. ... Originally, three equal Consuls made up the government established by Napoleon Bonaparte after the coup of 18 Brumaire (November 9, 1799), which established the Consulate in France (1799-1804). ... 1805 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. ...

He opposed Napoleon's restoration of the noblesse (nobility), and in 1808 only reluctantly accepted the title of "duc de Plaisance" (Piacenza). He was next employed in organizing the départements which were formed in Holland, of which he was governor-general from 1811 to 1813. Although to a certain extent opposed to the despotism of the emperor, he was not in favor of his deposition though he accepted the fait accompli of the Bourbon Restoration in April 1814. Louis XVIII made him a peer of France; but during the Hundred Days he accepted from Napoleon the post of Grand Master of the university. On the return of the Bourbons in 1815 he was consequently suspended from the House of Peers but was recalled in 1819. He died at Saint-Mesmes (in the then Seine-et-Oise, now in Seine-et-Marne). For other uses, see Napoleon (disambiguation). ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Piacenza is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, of approximately 104,000 inhabitants. ... The départements (or departments) are administrative units of France, roughly analogous to British counties and are now grouped into 22 metropolitan and four overseas régions. ... Holland is the common name in English referring to the Kingdom of the Netherlands (or exclusively its European part)--although this is incorrect from a Dutch perspective. ... 1811 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1813 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Following the ousting of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1814, the Allies restored the Bourbon Dynasty to the French throne. ... April is the fourth month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of four with the length of 30 days. ... 1814 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Louis XVIII (November 17, 1755 - September 16, 1824) was King of France from 1814 (although he declared that he considered his reign to have begun in 1795) until his death in 1824. ... The status of Peer of France was held by the greatest and highest-ranking of the French nobility. ... The Hundred Days (French Cent-Jours) or the Waterloo Campaign commonly names the period between 20 March 1815, the date on which Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Paris after his return from Elba, and 28 June 1815, the date of the restoration of King Louis XVIII. The phrase Cent jours was... 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The House of Peers (貴族院 Kizokuin) was the upper house of the Imperial Diet under the Constitution of the Empire of Japan (in effect from 11 February 1889 to 3 May 1947). ... 1819 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Seine-et-Marne is a French département, named after the Seine and the Marne rivers, and located in the Île-de-France région. ...

He was made a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in 1803. The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres is a French learned society founded in 1663 and concerned with the humanities. ... 1803 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ...

References

• M. de Caumont la Force, L'Architrésorier Lebrun (Paris, 1907)
• M. Marie du Mesnil, Memoire sur le prince Le Brun, due de Plaisance (Paris, 1828)
• Opinions, rapports et choix d'écrits politiques de C. F. Lebrun (1829), edited, with a biographical notice, by his son Anne Charles Lebrun

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