The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de
(lw äNtwän´ fvl´ d brn´) (KEY) , 17691834, French political figure. He was a friend and for a time (17971802) private secretary to Napoleon, who made him a councillor of state. Bourrienne later supported the Bourbon restoration and was elected to the chamber of deputies, where he was a spokesman for the ultraroyalist followers of King Charles X. His memoirs (10 vol., 182931) are vivid but untrustworthy.