Early life
Bureau de Pusy was born on 7 January 1750 inPolitical career
Military career
On 1 January 1771 he entered the School of Engineering at Charleville-Mézières, Mézières as a second lieutenant. He was a military engineer at the Fort de Joux in 1786, in 1789 he was captain with the Royal corps of Engineers. After the session of the National Constituent Assembly, he resumed as a captain in the engineering corps, and continued to defend the constitutional principles. On 1 January 1792, Louis XVI gave him the Cross of St. Louis. In 1792, he was a subordinate under Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, at Metz. He, Lafayette, and some other officers were taken prisoner by the Austrians near Rochefort, Belgium, Rochefort when de Pusy asked for rights of transit through Austrian territory on behalf of a group of French officers. This was initially granted, as it had been for others fleeing France, but was revoked when the famous Lafayette was recognized. He was imprisoned by the Austrians at the fortress of Olomouc in 1792. He was released in 1797, under the terms of the treaty of Campo-Formio (18 October 1797). He the then went to Hamburg. From there he traveled to the United States, where he received a warm welcome as Lafayette companion in misfortune. He was offered vast, land grants on the banks of the Delaware River, but he had not given up on returning to France, and when the French Consulate, consulate government had, after the coup of 18 Brumaire, struck off the list of ''émigrés'' members of the National Constituent Assembly who had recognized the sovereignty of the people, he hastened to return. In 1799, he corresponded with Thomas Jefferson.Consulate and empire
On 11 Brumaire X (2 November 1801), the Napoleon Bonaparte, First Consul appointed him the prefect of Allier, and then, on 11 Thermidor X (30 July 1802), that of the Rhône (department), Rhône; it showed a very conciliatory spirit, and showed himself able administrator. He was made a Commandeurs of the Legion of Honour on 25 Prairial XII (14 June 1804). He was appointed prefect of Gênes (Genoa) on 15 Messidor year XIII (4 July 1805); he had to suppress a riot of Parma, and was able to without shedding a drop of blood. He caught an illness that he died from on this exposition. He died on 2 February 1806 in Genoa.Family
He was the son of Jean-Baptiste Bureau de Pusy de Port-sur-Saône, conseiller correcteur of the Chambre des comptes of Franche-Comté, and grandson of Pierre-François Choullat. He was the son-in-law of Pierre Poivre. His mother-in-law, Françoise Robin, married Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours. His son, Maurice de Pusy (1799–1864), married Mathilde de Lafayette, daughter of Georges Washington de La Fayette, Georges de Lafayette and Emilie de Tracy, and granddaughter of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, General Lafayette and Antoine Destutt de Tracy.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bureau De Pusy, Jean-Xavier 1750 births 1806 deaths People from Haute-Saône French nobility Members of the National Constituent Assembly (France) Politicians from Bourgogne-Franche-Comté French engineers French prisoners of war in the 18th century French Army officers Commanders of the Legion of Honour Prefects of Allier Prefects of Rhône (department) Knights of the Order of Saint Louis