Second White Terror
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The Second White Terror occurred in France in 1815–1816, following the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo and the enthronement of Louis XVIII as King of France after the Hundred Days. Suspec
The murder of Guillaume Brune, Marshal of the Empire, by a royalist mob in Avignon on 2 August 1815, engraved c. 1865
The Execution of Marshal Ney, 1868 painting by Jean-Léon Gérôme
Guillaume Brune
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Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, 1st Count Brune was a French military commander and Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
Second White Terror
…the Napoleonic army were disbanded after the Battle of Waterloo and its senior officers cashiered. Marshal Michel Ney was executed for treason, Marshal Guillaume Brune was murdered by a royalist mob in Avignon, and General Jean-Pierre Ramel was assassinated in Toulouse. Approximately 6,000 individuals who had rallied…
Portrait by Eugène Battaille after an original by Marie-Guillemine Benoist. The original, commissioned by Napoleon and executed in 1805, was lost in the fire that destroyed the Tuileries Palace in 1871.
Brune as commander of the Armée de Batavie in the Batavian Republic, by Charles Howard Hodges (c. 1799)
Marshal Brune