Apparently a citizen named Louis Delpech, prefect of Bouches-du-Rhône, formed one of several companies of francs-tireurs called Francs-Tireurs de la Mort. Here is a notice regarding the creation of that company from the Actes du Gouvernement de la Défense Nationale, v II, p 173:
Delpech was made colonel and served under Bourbaki, just as Debosnys claimed to have done (La Campagne de l'Est et l'Armée de Bourbaki, p 101)
But Delpech was not Debosnys, since Delpech returned to civilian life after the war (working in the realm of rail transportation between France and Portugal) and died in 1896. The two men would have been only two years apart in age, though.
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