The “first born” in Clairac, is Sieur Jacques BUSCAILLE, born on October 20, 1763 in Cambes, date on which he was baptized by Jean-Pierre Gabriac, pastor of the Hautes Cévennes, following the established custom in the Reformed Churches of France. He is the son of Jean Buscaille, merchant, and Marie Mendouze, “married in the desert”, living in Cambes (Clairac). It is Jean-Pierre Peyrot, deputy mayor of Clairac, civil registrar by delegation, who certifies the extract of this birth declaration on 5 January 1817.
His certificate of individuality was drawn up on January 7, 1817 by Jean-Étienne de Saffin, Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, Mayor of Clairac, in the presence of Viscount Robert Labat de Vivens, member of the General Council of the Department of Lot-et-Garonne, and Étienne Dubosc, first substitute for the Justice of the Peace of the Canton of Tonneins.
Engaged in the Compagnie Franche de Clairac on July 29, 1792 (he was 28 years old), he was appointed deputy to the general staff of the Italian army on 1st prairial year 2 (May 20, 1794), by Major General Gaultier Kerveguen, Chief of Staff, in accordance with the decree of the Comité de Salut Public of 16 floréal year 2.
He was appointed lieutenant in the 22nd 1/2 brigade which became 63rd, on 7 fructidor year 3, then captain on 8 pluviôse year 5 (January 27, 1797). It was General Kleber who appointed him battalion commander on the 1st ventôse year 8 (February 20, 1800), an appointment confirmed by the government on 13 germinal year 10 (April 3, 1802). He is placed after the 9th> line infantry regiment on 8 floréal year 10 (28 April 1802). From July 29, 1792 to November 25, 1806, he had 14 years, 3 months and 26 days of service and 11 years for war campaign.
Battalion commander in the 9th Line Infantry Regiment, he was the subject on November 25, 1806 of a memorandum of proposal for retirement pay “for infirmity not arising from wounds” indicating that he was affected by “considerable weakness of sight, mainly of nyctalopia, hardness of hearing which periodically degenerates into complete deafness and painful difficulty in the movement of the upper right extremity, following a Biscaïen blow, which has strongly contrituted the stump of the shoulder which often worsens with the complication of rheumatic pains to which it is usually subject (...) which put it out of action to continue the service.”
The Board of Directors of the 9th regiment attests that these infirmities stem from the “events and fatigues of war and particularly from the campaigns of Egypt and Syria.” He was present in the 9th line regiment until October 21, 1807.
He retired to Clairac and was a member of the town council when he was made Knight of the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour to take the rank on 5 November 1804, his certificate being signed in Paris on 26 September 1818. He died in Clairac on July 31, 1832. His brother, Pierre Buscaille, owner in Cambes, was his sole heir.
