Daru. I. Pierre Antoine Noel Bruno, count, a French statesman and author, born at Mont-pellier, Jan. 12, 1767, died near Meulan, Sept. 5, 1829. He entered the army in 1783, and from 1784 to 1791 was commissary of war. Adopting the principles of the revolution, he served as ordnance commissary in the army of Brittany, but was imprisoned during the reign of terror, and recovered his liberty on the 9th Thermidor. In 1796 he became commissary in the ministry of war, and during this period pursued his literary studies, publishing in 1797 a translation of Horace. After Napoleon's return from Egypt he was nominated inspector of the troops and secretary of the ministry of war, was elected tribune in 1802, and under the empire in 1805 and 1806 became councillor of state, intendant general of the household of Napoleon, intendant general of the grand army, and member of the French academy. He acted as plenipotentiary in the execution of the convention of Alexandria and the treaties of Pres-burg, Tilsit, and Vienna. In 1811 he became minister of state; and in the next year he strongly opposed the Russian campaign, in which as intendant general of the army he displayed all the resources of his courage and talent.

He was one of the last to give in adherence to the reestablished Bourbons, and was among the first who rallied about Napoleon when he reappeared from Elba. After the second restoration he was exiled to Bourges, where he composed his Histoire de la repu-Uique de Venue (7 vols., 1819-'21). In 1819 he was recalled from exile and made a peer, and until his death was an eloquent opponent of the reactionary tendencies of the government. He published several poems and satirical epistles, Eloges of Sully, Volney, and Laplace, La cleo-pedie, ou la theorie des reputations litter aires (1800), an Histoire de Bretagne (Paris, 1826), and reports on the rupture of the treaty of Amiens, the monetary system, public instruction, the right of petition, individual liberty, and the censorship of the press. II. Napoleon, count, a French statesman, son of the preceding, born in Paris, June 11, 1807. He was godson of Napoleon and Josephine. At an early age he entered the army, served in Algeria, and resigned in 1847, having attained the rank of captain. In 1832 he entered the chamber of peers by hereditary right, and was an ardent supporter of the monarchy. After the revolution of 1848 he supported the new government, representing the department of La Manche both in the constituent and the legislative assembly.

In 1850 and 1851 he was chosen vice president of the latter body; but after the coup d'etat of Dec. 2, 1851, which he opposed, he retired from public life. In May, 1869, he was elected a member of the corps legislatif. In December of that year he was elected vice president of the chamber, and in January, 1870, was appointed minister of foreign affairs in the new cabinet formed under ' the presidency of M. Ollivier. In April, however, having vainly opposed the plebiscite of the following month, he resigned, and during the Franco-Prussian war remained in retirement. After the meeting of the national assembly at Bordeaux in February, 1871, he again appeared in public life, and subsequently became a supporter of the administration of President Thiers.