Dubois de Crancé, a violent French revolutionary, born at Charleville; besieged and captured Lyons, giving no quarter; was Minister of War under the Directory; secured the adoption of the principle of conscription in recruiting the army (1747‒1814).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dubois, Reymond * Dubourg