Julien Bessières

Julien Bessières (1777 - 1840) was a scientist and diplomatic French.

Cousin of the marshal of Empire Jean-Baptiste Bessières and Bertrand Bessières, it belonged to the Commission of Sciences and Arts at the time of the Campagne of Egypt of Bonaparte.

Patient, it had to return to France on October 26th, 1798, on board the Tartane livournaise Madonna di Montenego . Among his/her travelling companions were François Pouqueville, P.S. Girard (Members of the Commission), Jean Etienne Casimir Poitevin de Maureilhan (officer of the genious) or Joseph Claude Marie Charbonnel (artillery officer). The ship was attacked and captured by an Albanian pirate, Ourochs. It resold its prisoners with various Othoman authorities . Bessières was sold with Ali Pasha de Janina, with Poitevin and Charbonnel. In 1800, the three men are locked up in Fortezza Nuova of Corfou. They escaped some in the night from November 21st to 22nd.

Of return in France, Bessières was named director of the rights joined together for the Hautes-Alpes.

In 1804, it found Ali Pasha near whom it was named business man. In 1805, he was general consul with Venice. In 1807, it became, until 1814, imperial police chief (thus in load of all the civil cases) of Corfou, there even where it had been locked up.

He was then intendant of Navarre, prefect of the Gers, the Aveyron then of the Ariège. Elected official appointed in 1830, it was then named even France.

Source

Dr. Vincent, “French in Corfou. The arrival. ”, in Re-examined Napoleonean Studies. , volume XXX, January-June 1930.

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