Japan: 'Bakufu Troops near Mount Fuji in 1867'. Painting by Jules Brunet (1838-1911), 1867

Jules Brunet (2 January 1838 - 12 August 1911) was a French Army officer who played a significant and famous role during the Japanese Boshin War, also known as the Japanese Revolution. Brunet had been sent to Japan with the French military mission of 1867, and when the Shogun was defeated, he had an important role in the founding of the unrecognised Republic of Ezo.

After the fall of the Ezo Republic in 1869 and the defeat of the Tokugawa shogunate, Brunet fled from Japan and returned home to France, where he was promoted to General and later became Chief of Staff to the French Minister of War in 1898. Brunet was also a talented painter who left numerous depictions of his travels in Japan and Mexico.

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Jules Brunet (1838-1911)

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