Antoine Brun

Anthoine Brun (1599–1654) was a Burgundian diplomat in the service of Philip IV of Spain who played an important role in the negotiations leading to the Peace of Münster (1648).
Thereafter he became the king's first resident ambassador in the newly recognised Dutch Republic. He took up residence in The Hague in mid-1649, his first official despatch as ambassador being dated 29 June 1649. In 1650 he concluded a naval treaty with the Dutch on behalf of the king.
He was also a man of letters, publishing a French translation of a selection of the letters of Justus Lipsius: Le Chois des Epistres de Lipse (1650).

Publications

• Le Manifeste d'Antoine Brun (1638), edited by Emile Longin (Vesoul, 1905).
• Le Chois des Epistres de Lipse, translated by Antoine Brun (Lyon, 1650).