Charles Brun (France)
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Charles Brun (22 November 1821, Toulon – 13 January 1897, Paris) was a 1st class engineer of the French Navy stationed at Rochefort, France.
He was famously involved in building the submarine Plongeur,[1] which had been designed by Simon Bourgeois, in 1862.
Charles Brun later became:
- Director of Naval constructions
- Member of Parliament for Var (1871–76)
- Senator for Var (1876–89)
- Minister of Marine and the Colonies from 1883
References[edit]
- ^ Le Masson, H. (1969) Du Nautilus (1800) au Redoubtable (Histoire critique du sous-marin dans la marine française), Paris pp.55–59
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