Charles of Buissière

Charles-Hippolyte Delpeuch of Buissière , known as Bussière , (1768 - 1808).

Bussière is born with Paris from a noble and poor officer with whom it will never get along. To sixteen years, this last sends it like junior in the regiment by Savoy-Carignan, which is in garrison with Dunkirk. But it is diverted military career quickly. Of return to Paris, it is made Acteur and interprets with some success the roles of denied in a theater of the suburbs. It is at that time that it simplifies its name in Labussière , easier to pronounce and retain. in 1789 front the assembly renue in the church Saint Jacques the Hospital, chaired by the old man To cart, former prosecutor in Chàtelet M of Labussiere supported an extravagant motion, according to which it was necessary to send a delegation to Versailles near the roipour that it made " enter Paris 12.000 troops in order to restore the ordre" there; This proposal had the result until one could wait: CH of the bussiere was immediately hung with the lantern by the furious assistants: delivered by French guards; it was given by them " more dead than sharp between the hands of F Roller of Santerre, banker in Paris, which was one of its knowledge. Led to the prison of the Abbey, it left a few weeks there afterwards. " Mr. Gallet of Santerre believed that it was advisable to send M of Bussière for a few months to the countryside, in order to leave time to the people to forget this business, of which any Paris resounds. M of Bussiere was then employed at the Committee of Public Hello and the Committee of General security, where it rendered the greatest services to the imprisoned people (see further), without however saving its guard F Roller of Santerre of the guillontine on Thermidor 5, 1794 He likes to criticize or ridicule the men of the Revolution. What could have attracted serious troubles to him but he manages to be made employ in the offices of the Comité of public hello, i.e. at the general headquarter of the Terreur, where some of his/her friends found asylum.

In this spring 1794, Saint-Just indeed comes to create its own office of police force, on the second floor of the Tuileries. It is there that Buissière is employed, according to some on the simple fact that it has a good orthography and that it presents well.

Horrified by the mass executions whose files pass between its hands, Buissière would have taken the practice to go the night to the baths of Pierre Vigier , installed on the the Seine, with parts of charge which it would have carried at his exit of the office and it would have destroyed them. Its head clerk, Fabien Pintail, would never have been astonished by these disappearances.

Thus, it would have started by saving a famous director of theater, Montansier. He would have claimed later to have withdrawn more than fifty parts of his paperboards only the 7,8 and 9 Messidor, of which those of the actors of the Th3e4atre Fran1cais, just as he would have thrown to the Seine 924 lawsuits, of the 22 Floréal with the fall of Robespierre. Once the lost files of instruction, the prisoners are forgotten in their prisons, their names do not appear more under the eyes of the charge, one would have even had evil to find them among the thousands of imprisoned people. It would have thus saved, inter alia, the marchioness of the Villette, famous “Beautiful and Good one” of Voltaire; Mrs. de Buffon, niece of the naturalist; the count de Talleyrand-Périgord, uncle of the diplomat; Volney, precursor of anthropology; Delessert, famous banking Swiss; Mrs. de Vassy, who wrote her memories of prison; Florian, writer emblematic of his time; the Viscount of Ségur, dramatic author who had marked attention to him; Mrs. of Fayette, marries of the general; the prince of Monaco; Delphine de Sabran, widow of the general of Custine, is in all 1.153 people.

After Thermidor, it engages near Louis Legendre and deals with making release the innocent ones with which the prisons of Paris are full. It makes a short stay in prison at the time of the attempt at coup d'etat of the 13 vendémiaire. Then it is forgotten.

Under the Consulate, patient and without employment, it falls into misery. Informed of its misfortune, the Actors of the Com3edie fran1caise organize one evening with his benefit. The actors whom it saved choose a part with the many characters, so that each one of them can hold a role to with it. The representation takes place on April 5th 1803 with the Théâtre of the Door Saint Martin's day, on the initiative of the actor Dazincourt. One gives the Hamlet of Ducis and Augustin and Theodore, or the Two pages of Dezède. The main actors are Talma, Dazincourt, Fleury, M Raucourt and Contat. The First Consul assists to with it, like Joséphine de Beauharnais, that Buissière would have saved.

Incompetent of economy, Buissière quickly wastes the product of this evening. Victim of a violent attack of paralysis, it if is decreased soon that one locks up it in a lunatic asylum, where it dies a little later entirely forgotten.

Buissière was told in 1803, in memories written by Mr. Liénart. Etienne and Martainville them also reported the facts in their Histoire of the French Theater . This account is corroborated by the department head of Buissière, Fabien Pillet, which writes a note in the biographical Dictionnaire of Michaud.

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