Nantes. Monbrun acquitted by the council of war.

Monbrun, of an imperious character, soon entered into a struggle for authority with Bauvais. Pinchinat and Rigaud, chosen as mediators by the two rivals, went to Jacmel and condemned the conduct of Monbrun, who withdrew to his plantation near Aquin, his birthplace. But Rigaud, who like Sonthonax and Polvérel believed him devoted to the English party, had him arrested and imprisoned at Saint-Louis du Sud, after giving his properties over to pillage. Shortly afterward he sent him to France. Monbrun was imprisoned immediately upon his arrival at Rochefort. It was only in 1798 (2 June) that he was acquitted and set at liberty at Nantes by the council of war of the 12th military division, presided over by Adjutant-General Peste Turenne Laval. He had been accused chiefly of having delivered Port-Républicain to the English. He became a distinguished general in the armies of the French Empire, after having been commandant of the Château Trompette at Bordeaux.