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Brienne
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English
Etymology
From en fr Brienne.
Proper noun
A placename
The town of en Brienne-le-Château in France.
Napoleon was nearly captured by the Cossacks after the Battle of Brienne, but was saved by one of his generals.
en 2011 Frank McLynn Napoleon: A Biography 1611450373 Napoleon arrived in Brienne on 15 May 1779.
The commune of Brienne in Saône-et-Loire, France.
en obsolete en French. en de Brienne; en Bryan de Bryan 1.
en rare en female, in occasional modern use.
2009, Brienne J. Meyer, Adirondack Mycorrhizal and Saprobic Macromycetes
en 2000 w:George R. R. Martin Song of Ice and Fire Bk. 3, Bantam Books 0553106635 16 "You will call me Brienne. Not wench."
Derived terms
en Braime Briennist
en A Song of Ice and Fire
French
fr:
Proper noun
a placename
the commune of fr Brienne (Saône-et-Loire) Brienne in Saône-et-Loire, France.
the commune of fr Brienne-le-Château, in l'Aube, France; which includes the Brienne Military Academy
the commune of fr Brienne-sur-Aisne, in Ardennes, France
the commune of fr Brienne-la-Vieille, in l'Aube, France
fr an elliptical de Brienne
Descendants
en Brienne
en Bryan