Joseph-Joachim Labrouche (28 July 1769, Hendaye

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 - 21 March 1853, Saint-Jean-de-Luz

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) was a French politician

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Labrouche played an important role in the Napoleonic Empire and received the Légion d'Honneur

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 on 25 January 1815.

On 13 May 1815, he was elected

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 a member of the Chambre des Représentants

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, a short-lived parliamentary assembly

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 set up by Napoleon I

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 during the Hundred Days

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, for the arrondissement

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 of Bayonne

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Labrouche was also an important ship-owner

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 and a mayor

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of Saint-Jean-de-Luz.