Jacques Destouches
See also: Destouches
Jacques Destouches , born with Granville the February 9th 1780 and died in Caen the May 18th 1858, is a Contre-révolutionnaire French.
Under the Revolution
Resulting from a family of gentlemen ship-owners of Granville, Jacques Destouches succeeds his father, with died of this last like royalist mail between Granville and Jersey. Betrayed by a sailor, it is stopped in the night from July 3rd to 4th 1798. Transferred to Avranches, this nineteen year old young man is condemned to death. A daring knack of the Chouan S delivers it, on February 9th 1799.
Under the Consulate and the First Empire
Based with Jersey, Jacques Destouches takes again his activities of mail, shows Louis de Frotté, sows the disorder in the royalist rows and gives signs of mental disturbance. In 1808, the British government decides to get rid some by dispatching it with the Canada. On the boat, its madness worsens and one brings back it to the the United Kingdom where one places it in a private hospital until in 1823.
Under the Restoration
Apparently cured, Jacques Destouches returns in France but relapse and is interned in 1826 with the asylum of the Good-Saver with Caen where he dies. It is there that Barbey d' Aurevilly saw it in 1856.
The novel of Barbey-in Aurevilly made of Jacques Destouches a character quite far away from the sad truth.
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