Charles-François Lebrun, 1st duc de Plaisance was a French statesman who served as Third Consul of the French Republic and was later created Arch-Treasurer and Prince of the Empire by Napoleon I.
Portrait by Robert Lefèvre, 1807
The Three Consuls (Lebrun, right)
Histoire Naturelle, 1810 – one of the paintings recently installed in the entrance of Herengracht 40 in Amsterdam, this one with the portrait of Charles-François LeBrun, Napoleon's governor of the Netherlands
Mansion of Lebrun on Herengracht 40, Amsterdam
The Consulate was the top-level government of France from the fall of the Directory in the coup of 18 Brumaire on 10 November 1799 until the start of the French Empire on 18 May 1804. By extension, the term The Consulate also refers to this period of French history.
Portrait of First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Image: Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, by Jacques Louis David
Image: Adu C 233 Ducos (R., 1747 1816)
Image: Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès