We all know about Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, the finance minister guys who succeeded Calonne. Besides a remarkably long name, he was a rather boring and uninteresting man, not worth remembering in general.

Well, Brienne certainly got a thing for bombastic names, if we dig a little deeper, we find that Brienne was from a old noble family who were dukes of a region called Limousin. And in case you are wondering, yes, the limousine car is named after the region because the inhabitants wore a hood with a profile perceived to be similar to that of the car.

Also noteworthy is that before he entered politics, Brienne was flirting around with the clergy, he obtained a doctorate in theology and with a visit to the Pope in 1760, he was conferred the title Bishop of Condom, how bout that huh. In case you are entertaining filthy thoughts, Condom is really just a boring uninteresting town somewhere in France, however, given the more widespread social use in the English language, of the word Condom , it is interesting to note that the town is located on the river Baïse; baise (without the diaeresis), which is a French vulgarism for a sex act.

Anyway, after his stint as a politician, Brienne later got promoted to become the Archbishop of Sens. Despite that, he lost his senses and advocated for the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, this led to his subsequent self destruction. Both his past and present conduct made him an object of suspicion to the revolutionaries; he was arrested at Sens on 9th November 1793 , and died in prison, either of an apoplectic stroke or by poison.