Jacques Bruneau of Mérousière

Jacques Bruneau , sior of Mérousière in Brissarthe, known as Mr Jacques (° 1768 - † December 11th 1794), was a chief Chouan of left bank of the Mayenne.

Biography

Jacques Bruneau, originating in the noble ground of Mérousière in Brissarthe where it had been born in 1768, was used before the French revolution in a regiment of cavalry in garrison for Dunkirk. Admitted in the constitutional guard of the king Louis XVI, it went soon to join Henri of Rochejaquelein and came in the Maine after the defeat from Savenay. Its reserve, its discretion, the distinction in its manners, the authority of its word, its value, created around him a mysterious legend. A famous birth was supposed to him, and its credit was increased some. It benefitted from it without being prevailed about it. Former soldier, endowed with sights broader than the simple peasants who surrounded it, his goal was to organize the Chouannerie by giving him a chief, by becoming it with the need.

In July 1794, it went to visit the gatherings of Turpin de Crissé, Dieuzie, Terves; was on July 26th with the combat of Gené, where Angevins attacked a convoy of Segré; and remained in the canton of Joseph-Juste Coquereau which had been with this action, to cure itself of a wound. But when, hardly restored, he wanted to join terrible Chouan, he quickly recognized the impossibility of an united action, and, after him to have carried help with the attack of Cherré, he came to the Bignon to bring together himself with the Corbin brothers, from the village of Massonnerie , and entered thanks to them in relation to the Chouan S of the country, and especially with Jambe of Money, that he accepted with all the marks of a deep regard to the Château of Champfleury. He opened with him of his project to give to all the royalists Maine a chief who could direct them for the united actions. A chief who, far from bringing together around him the captains of the various cantons, visits them and would study on the spot the needs, the occasions, the local dangers, and who would not make any decision without the opinion of the men most considered.

Mr Jacques put himself at once to traverse the parishes of Villiers, Bouère, Auvers-le-Hamon, Bouessay, Ruillé, Azé, Fromentières, and, being pressed particularly on the company of Wheat-producing, is established with the Château of the Currents to Longuefuye. It is there that Nicolas-Philipert the Candlestick of Pierreville found it after the failure of Entrammes to request it to take the effective command. It ordered a gathering of the chiefs with Jupelière of Maisoncelles, the October 28th 1794. Surprised by the Blue ones, it showed there value and of skill, then, in a new meeting with Bazougers, its plan exposed: to block the provisioning of the cities, to decide some priests to follow them as chaplains, to burn the churches which were used as cutting off to the republicans.

The following day, a gathering many took place with the Camp-Green ; Joseph-Juste Coquereau was there. One solved to attack Montsûrs. The attack took place the December 2nd 1794, with fallen the night. The advanced stations were carried in a wink, but Chouans failed in front of the cuttings off of the castle and the walls of the vault of three-Marry , where the republican troops had been withdrawn. It was a new argument which Mr Jacques put forward to urge Chouans not to more save the churches which were used as barracks. The evening even, its troop had returned to Bazougers; he laid off it for until spring, and moved towards the Anjou. It is perhaps at that time that it gained an advantage over the quartering of the Agets.

The noises of pacification starting to circulate, Chouans of the Low-Maine dispatched messengers to him to request it to come to put itself at their head or to give them its instructions. They reported only the news of its death. It had been struck of one ball to the attack of Daumeray, the December 11th 1794, at the time when it tried to set fire to the church, and had died 3 weeks afterwards with Juvardeil. it was 26 years old.

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