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Bruyerre<\/span><\/span>,<\/span> Louis<\/span>, <\/span>Joseph, Cl\u00e9ment, militaire puis auteur dramatique, n\u00e9 \u00e0 Paris le 10 mars 1864*, d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 12 mai 1938 (?).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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Bien que disposant de peu d\u2019informations sur le parcours qui le mena jusque dans rangs de l\u2019arm\u00e9e dans laquelle il s’engagea en 1883 et o\u00f9 il fut \u00e9lev\u00e9 au grade de brigadier en 1884, sous-lieutenant en 1888 puis de lieutenant en 1897), sa lettre de d\u00e9mission permet d\u2019appr\u00e9hender sa personnalit\u00e9 et son dreyfusisme. Cette lettre, du 30 juillet 1898, \u00ab r\u00e9dig\u00e9e dans un style violent \u00bb, selon le g\u00e9n\u00e9ral Roge<\/a>t (Rennes <\/i>iii, <\/span>p. 152), \u00e9tait \u00e0 la mesure de la col\u00e8re qu\u2019il \u00e9prouvait vis-\u00e0-vis d\u2019une arm\u00e9e qui n\u2019agissait plus selon les principes pour lesquels il s\u2019\u00e9tait engag\u00e9 : \u00ab pour moi, l\u2019honneur de l\u2019arm\u00e9e se confondait avec l\u2019honneur de la nation et l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat de l\u2019une ne me paraissait plus pouvoir \u00eatre oppos\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019int\u00e9r\u00eat de l\u2019autre depuis que l\u2019id\u00e9e de patrie a pris naissance dans le monde moderne \u00bb. Bruyerre ne pouvait admettre que l\u2019arm\u00e9e ne se r\u00e9sum\u00e2t qu\u2019aux membres de l\u2019\u00c9tat-major et que leurs int\u00e9r\u00eats pr\u00e9valussent sur ceux de la patrie : \u00ab j\u2019ai entendu d\u00e9clarer par des ministres que le vocable \u201carm\u00e9e\u201d d\u00e9signe uniquement le corps d\u2019officiers et d\u2019une mani\u00e8re plus sp\u00e9cialement quelques membres de l\u2019\u00c9tat-major. On nous a appris que cette arm\u00e9e poss\u00e8de des int\u00e9r\u00eats et surtout des droits particuliers qui doivent primer ceux de la patrie \u00bb. Bruyerre admettait la d\u00e9faillance d\u2019un haut grad\u00e9, mais ne pouvait concevoir que l\u2019ensemble de l\u2019\u00e9<\/span>tat-major cautionn\u00e2t l\u2019ignominie et \u00ab se rende complice du crime en le couvrant \u00bb. Il renon\u00e7a donc \u00e0 cette arm\u00e9e transform\u00e9e en caste devant laquelle \u00ab tout ce qui constitue la dignit\u00e9 humaine, c\u2019est-\u00e0-dire la conscience de la justice doit s\u2019effacer \u00bb. Il d\u00e9missionna le 12 juillet 1898 et fut r\u00e9voqu\u00e9 de son grade le 30 juillet de la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e. <\/span> Interrog\u00e9 lors de la premi\u00e8re r\u00e9vision<\/a>, le 19 janvier 1899, sur la p\u00e9riode d\u2019instruction faite en 1894 puis, au proc\u00e8s de Rennes<\/a>, au cours des audiences du 1er<\/sup> et du 4 septembre 1899, il s\u2019appliqua \u00e0 r\u00e9tablir la v\u00e9rit\u00e9 concernant les documents du 120 court, pr\u00e9cisant qu\u2019il \u00e9tait possible de \u00ab prendre tous les croquis et toutes les notes qui auraient pu nous convenir et aucune recommandation contraire ne nous avait \u00e9t\u00e9 faite \u00bb. Il expliqua ensuite que les officiers n\u2019avaient jamais eu aucun probl\u00e8me pour examiner les pi\u00e8ces de la batterie des 120 court, comme pour assister aux \u00e9coles \u00e0 feu, pr\u00e9cisant qu\u2019aucune pr\u00e9caution particuli\u00e8re n\u2019\u00e9tait jamais prise. Il souligna les facilit\u00e9s qu\u2019il y avait \u00e0 se procurer le Manuel de tir, notant d\u2019ailleurs que plusieurs milliers d\u2019exemplaires \u00e9taient envoy\u00e9s par la poste \u00e0 tous les officiers de la r\u00e9serve et de l\u2019arm\u00e9e territoriale \u00ab sans aucune esp\u00e8ce de contr\u00f4le possible \u00bb. L\u2019officier Bruyerre ne voulut pas cautionner l\u2019accomplissement d\u2019actes qu\u2019il repoussait hautement, et laissa \u00e0 d\u2019autres le soin honteux de \u00ab la besogne inf\u00e2me \u00bb. Redevenu homme de troupe il demeura n\u00e9anmoins au service de l\u2019arm\u00e9e au cas o\u00f9 la nation serait en p\u00e9ril. C\u2019est en tant qu\u2019homme de lettres qu’il se pr\u00e9senta le 19 janvier devant la cour de cassation lors de la premi\u00e8re r\u00e9vision, \u00e0 l\u2019audience du proc\u00e8s de Rennes du 1er<\/sup> septembre 1899, qui avait sign\u00e9 la 2e<\/sup> protestation de janvier 1898<\/a> (6e<\/sup> liste), et qui signera l\u2019Adresse au capitaine Dreyfus<\/a> (11 septembre 1899). Il sera aussi un habitu\u00e9 du d\u00eener des Trois Marches<\/a> (Stock, p.\u2008133).
Nous ne connaissons que deux pi\u00e8ces de Bruyerre : Le Devoir, <\/i>pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e au Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Libre le 15 et 16 f\u00e9vrier 1893 et En Paix, <\/i>pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e au Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Antoine le 8 janvier 1900.
Nous perdons ensuite toute trace de lui jusqu’\u00e0 sa reprise de service en 1914. Il se battit dans la Somme, en Champagne, \u00e0 Verdun et en Argonne o\u00f9 sa conduite h\u00e9ro\u00efque lui valut d’\u00eatre \u00e9lev\u00e9 au grade de capitaine en mai 1917, d’\u00eatre cit\u00e9 \u00e0 l’ordre de l’arm\u00e9e, d\u00e9cor\u00e9 de la croix de guerre et de la L\u00e9gion d’honneur en 1918. Nous perdons ensuite toute trace de lui jusqu’\u00e0 son tardif mariage, en 1929, avec Marie Louise Agla\u00e9 du Louvat de Champollon.
Notons que photographe amateur, il r\u00e9alisera, \u00e0 l’occasion de sa venue au proc\u00e8s de Rennes, une s\u00e9rie de clich\u00e9s dont 50 nous sont aujourd’hui connus<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

Sources et bibliographie : sa d\u00e9position lors de la premi\u00e8re r\u00e9vision se trouve dans Cassation i. <\/span><\/i>ii, <\/span>tome 1, p. 612-616, celle de Rennes dans Rennes <\/i>iii, <\/span>p. 144-153. Sa lettre de d\u00e9mission, en partie cit\u00e9e, du 30 juillet 1898, a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9e dans Le Si\u00e8cle, <\/i>3 septembre 1899<\/a> et dans Rennes <\/i>iii, <\/span>p. 310-312. L’original, reproduit \u00e0 la suite, est conserv\u00e9 \u00e0 la Maison Zola-Mus\u00e9e Dreyfus. Ses clich\u00e9s sont conserv\u00e9s \u00e0 la maison Zola Mus\u00e9e Dreyfus. On consultera son dossier de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019honneur sous la cote : 19800035\/741\/84147<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n

Sandrine Maillet et Philippe Oriol<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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