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Charles-François Lebrun was a French statesman born on the 19th of March 1739 in Saint-Sauveur-Lendelin. He served as Third Consul of the French Republic following Napoleon Bonaparte's 18 Brumaire coup of the 9th and the 10th of November 1799, taking an active part in the reorganization of national finances and the administration of France's départements.
Under Napoleon, Lebrun held the offices of Third Consul, Arch-Treasurer of the French Empire (from 1804), governor-general of Liguria (1805-1806), and governor-general of part of the annexed Netherlands (1811-1813). In 1808 he reluctantly accepted the hereditary title of duc de Plaisance, a duché grand-fief that was not extinguished until 1926.
Lebrun was arrested twice during the Terror. His second arrest in June 1794 put him under threat of the guillotine, but a relative stole his record of prosecution, causing a delay long enough for the Thermidorian Reaction to save him. His first arrest, in September 1793, had ended when the representative on mission Joseph Augustin Crassous intervened on his behalf.
Lebrun translated Torquato Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered in 1774 and the Iliad in 1776. He undertook both translations after the fall of Chancellor Maupéou, during a period of retreat to his property in Grillon.
Lebrun professed Liberalism in the National Constituent Assembly, where he sat as deputy for the Third Estate in the bailiwick of Dourdan. He remained a partisan of constitutional monarchy even after Louis XVI's flight to Varennes in June 1791, which made him a target for the Jacobin Club. In 1795, he voted against prosecuting Jacobins, favouring national reconciliation.
Lebrun died on the 16th of June 1824 in Sainte-Mesme, a commune then in Seine-et-Oise and now in Yvelines. He had been recalled to the House of Peers in 1819 after a suspension that followed his acceptance of Napoleon's grand maître de l'Université post during the Hundred Days.