Bourrienne
FAUVELET DE (bör-yen'), a French diplomatist, born in 1769, and educated along with Bonaparte at the School of Brienne, where a close intimacy sprang up between them.
Bourrienne went to Germany to study law and languages, but, returning to Paris in 1792, renewed his friendship with Napoleon, from whom he obtained various appointments, and, latterly , that of minister plenipotentiary at Hamburg.
Hamburg .
His character suffered from his being involved in several dishonorable monetary transactions, but he continued to fill high state offices, and, in 1814, was made prefect of police. On the abdication of Napoleon he paid his court to Louis XVIII. , and was nominated a Minister of State The Revolution of July, 1830, and the loss of his wealth, deprived him of his reason. He died in a lunatic asylum in 1834. His "Mémoires sur Napoléon, le Directoire, le Consulat, l'Empire et la Restauration" are valuable .