Guillanme Marie Anne Brune, a marshal of France, born at Brives-la-Gaillarde in 1763, died at Avignon, Aug. 2, 1815. He was educated at Paris for the law, but on the breaking out of the French revolution he took the side of the people, received a military appointment, and served under Dumouriez in Belgium. He was commissioned by the committee of public safety to put down the insurrection in the Gironde, which he did with the utmost rigor. He acted under Bonaparte against the revolting sections in Paris, and assisted the directory in putting down the conspiracy in the camp at Grenelle, Sept. 9, 1796. He then entered the army of Italy in the division of Massena, distinguishing himself by his intrepidity, and became commander of the second division, hitherto commanded by Augereau. After the peace of Oampo Formio he commanded the army which invaded Switzerland and captured Bonn. He was then sent to Italy, where, July 3, 1798, he forced the king of Sardinia to deliver up the citadel of Turin. In the following year he commanded in Holland, defeated the English and Russians at Bergen, and forced the duke of York to capitulate at Alkmaar, Oct. 18, 1799. After the 18th Bru-maire he was appointed a member of the council of state, and sent against the royalist insurgents of Brittany. From 1800 to 1802 he again served in Italy, and was afterward sent as ambassador to Constantinople. In 1804 he returned to France, and was created marshal.

In 1807 he received the grand cross of the legion of honor, and was sent to Hamburg as governor of the Hanseatic towns, and as commander of the reserve of the grand army. His conduct in regard to the truce with Sweden displeased Napoleon, and he was recalled in disgrace, and retired into private life. In 1814 he gave his adhesion to the acts of the senate, and received the cross of St. Louis from Louis XVIII. During the hundred days he became ag'ain a Bonapartist, and received the command of a corps preservation on the Var. After the battleof Waterloo he proclaimed King Louis XVIir,"and while on his way from Toulon to Paris he was killed by a royalist mob at Avignon. His body was dragged through the streets and then thrown into the Rh6ne. In 1841 a monument was erected to him in his native town.