Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy letters
Creation: 1797-1798Abstract
Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy (1750-1806) was a military engineer and politician, including serving in the Estates General of 1789. This collection consists of six letters from Bureaux de Pusy to Marie Charles Cesar Fay, Comte de Latour-Maubourg (1756-1831), who had been interned with La Fayette (1757-1834). The letters contain references to La Fayette and his wife, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817).
Dates
- Creation: 1797-1798
Creator
- Bureaux de Pusy, J.X. (Jean Xavier), 1750-1805 (Correspondent, Person)
Extent
6 item(s)
Biographical Note
Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy (1750-1806) was a military engineer and politician, including serving in the Estates General of 1789. In 1792, he married Françoise Julienne Ile de France Poivre (1770-1845) the daughter of Pierre Poivre (1719-1786) and Françoise Robin (1749-1841). In 1795, Françoise Robin du Pont (1748-1841) became the second wife of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), a French political economist, writer, publisher, and public administrator.
After five years in Austrian captivity, Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy was released and du Pont de Nemours made Bureaux de Pusy an officer and stockholder in his new American company, Du Pont de Nemours, Pére et Fils & Compagnie. The Bureaux de Pusy family arrived in America early in 1800 and shared a household in New Jersey with Du Pont de Nemours’s family before returning in 1802 to France, where Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy accepted an appointment under Napoleon.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of six letters from Bureaux de Pusy to Marie Charles Cesar Fay, Comte de Latour-Maubourg (1756-1831), who had been interned with La Fayette. The letters contain references to La Fayette and his wife, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Du Pont de Nemours. Plans for the departure of Du Pont de Nemours for America and his business projections are mentioned. Bureaux de Pusy, who had married the daughter of Madame du Pont de Nemours, also joined the Du Ponts in their American sojourn.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions on access; this collection is open for research.
Language of Materials
French
Related Names
Subject
- de Fay, Marie Charles César, Comte de Latour-Maubourg, 1756-1831 (Recipient, Person)
- Du Pont family (Family)
Finding Aid & Administrative Information
- Title:
- Jean Xavier Bureaux de Pusy letters
- Author:
- John Beverley Riggs
- Date:
- 1978
- Description rules:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description:
- English
- Script of description:
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2022: Jaime Bressmer
- 2024: Laurie Sather
Repository Details
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
