Thomas Pichon

Thomas Pichon , known as Thomas Tyrrell , born the March 30th 1700 with Transfers and dead the November 25th 1781 with Jersey, is a spy and author French.

Wire of merchants of Transfers, Thomas Pichon begins with Paris studies of medicine which it gives up for lack of money before becoming tutor in an big family. In 1726, it marries 20 years a Parisian widowed rich person its elder. Of 1741 with 1748, it works in various hospital administrations of the army in Bohemia, Bavaria and Holland. Too much honest to grow rich, as it was of habit, on the backs of the soldiers, Pichon is made mortal enemies of those which it prevents from notching military finances. This obliges, in June 1751, its guard the count of Argenson to make it pass in News-France under pretext of accompany as secretary the count Jean-Louis by Raymond named governor by the Royal Île. In October 1753, it is affected with the Fort Beauséjour where it binds with the English captains George Scott and John Hussey of the Fort Lawrence. In 1754, disappointed by the attitude of the French administration in Acadie and estimating that its devotion is not paid of return, it decides to be put at the service of the government of England which it considers less oppressive. As from September, it communicates to the English of Strong Lawrence, all the documents to which it has access under the name of Tirel that it says being of English origin on the side of his mother. The June 16th 1755, the English take strong Beauséjour and simulate its detention before making it pass England where Lord Halifax makes him obtain an annual pension of 200 £.

In 1756, it meets with London the écrivaine Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont with which it will live starting from 1758 and that it perhaps married. In 1760, it publishes in London at Nourse its Lettres and memories to be used for the natural history, civil and policy of the Cape Breton since its establishment until the resumption of this island by the English in 1758 English and French . In 1763, it plans to leave England for the Savoy to join Jeanne Marie Leprince de Beaumont but gives up the prospect it to lose its pension if it leaves the English territory. Towards 1769, it settles with Jersey where it will die in 1781 by bequeathing the integrality of its fortune and its immense library at its birthplace of Transfers in the condition express which the contents are not dispersed by it, which the Revolution was to do one decade later.

Work

Letters and memories to be used for the natural history, civil and policy of the Breton Cape , New York, Johnson Reprint, 1966

References

Genevieve Artigas-Driving, clandestine Lights: papers of Thomas Pichon , Paris, Honore Champion, 2001;
Genevieve Artigas-Driving, “a French at the Intrigues in 1752: Thomas Pichon”, Studies one Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century , 1992; 305: pp. 1593-97;
John Clarence, Webster; Alice de Kessler Lusk Webster, Thomas Pichon, “the spy off Beausejour,” year account off his career in Europe and America , Sackville, N.B., Platform Near, 1937.

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