Bois Brûlé is one of the eight townships located in Perry County, Missouri, in the United States of America.

The Spanish authorities invited them to settle and act as a buffer to the native Osage Indians to the south.

The first European settler in the Bois Brûlé Bottoms was Jean Baptiste Barsaloux, a traveling merchant.

In response to the presence of the Shawnee and Delaware, he moved to the area in 1787, and applied for a concession of land for himself and his father, Girard Barsaloux.

At this time seven men of the “English Nation” as the Americans were known, petitioned Francois Valle and received permission from Lieutenant Governor Leyba to settle tin the Bois Brûlé bottom, as safety against incursions of Indians and to prevent the wandering away of cattle.