"[8] By his ordonnances he was supportive to the island's development of forestry, agriculture and the industry and he established a plan for enlarging the bridges to enhance transport capabilities and commerce.
[9] Willingly taking into account the islanders' national feelings, he endeavored to reconcile a country still deeply marked by the recent paolist revolts.
As he favoured a reform of political representation, "Boucheporn pressed for a fully proportional system within the Estates, but at this juncture the ministers refused to move beyond a position whereby each order returned the same number of deputies.
"[11] During his Corsican stay, Boucheporn welcomed home Pierre Baillot (1771–1842), a young violinist and an orphan at the age of twelve of a magistrate in Bastia, and "treated him with all the tenderness of a son."
"[14] As he was newly installed as intendant of Navarre, in southern France, Boucheporn would declare to the parlementaires at Pau: "We no longer live in times when men consider that mode of governance to be perfect which is most complicated and most shrouded in mystery, or which endeavors to distract or altogether to deceive the people.
"[15] Under the Terror, as two of his sons had emigrated to serve in the Armée des Princes,[16] Boucheporn was arrested (June 1793) and "tried on a charge of sending money abroad.