Lucien Henri Louis Brun (2 June 1822 – 28 November 1898) was a French politician.
Brun was born in
Gex, Ain
Gex (; frp, Gèx; it, Gesio) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France and a subprefecture of the department.
It lies from the Swiss border and from Geneva. It is a subprefecture of Ain.
History
The town gave its name to the ''P ...
, on 2 June 1822. After graduating from the
Faculty of Law of Paris
The Faculty of Law of Paris (french: Faculté de droit de Paris), called from the late 1950s to 1970 the Faculty of Law and Economics of Paris, is the second-oldest faculty of law in the world and one of the four and eventually five faculties ...
, Brun practiced law in Lyon until his 1871 election to the
National Assembly
In politics, a national assembly is either a unicameral legislature, the lower house of a bicameral legislature, or both houses of a bicameral legislature together. In the English language it generally means "an assembly composed of the repre ...
as a deputy from Ain. Brun won over 40,000 votes and was the sixth of seven Ain-based deputies to be seated. He served until 1876. The next year, Brun was elected to the
Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
and designated a
senator for life
A senator for life is a member of the senate or equivalent upper chamber of a legislature who has life tenure. , six Italian senators out of 206, two out of the 41 Burundian senators, one Congolese senator out of 109, and all members of the Bri ...
. He died on 28 November 1898, and was replaced by
Athanase Bassinet
Athanase-Henri Bassinet (16 May 1850 - 12 February 1914) was a laborer who entered politics and became a senator of France from 1899 to 1914.
Early years
Athanase-Henri Bassinet was born in Chantôme, Indre, on 16 May 1850.
His family was in mode ...
.
References
1822 births
1898 deaths
French life senators
Members of the National Assembly (1871)
19th-century French lawyers
People from Gex, Ain
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