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ILLE-ET-VILAINE. 1797. Deputy COSTARD (Alexis-Joseph) born in Saint-Méen (Ille et Vilaine) 1753 - Vice-President of the Court of Appeal, Deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine in 1810 - RENNES (35) 19 Fructidor Year 5 (5 Sept 1797) - Autograph letter signed COSTARD, to his former Colleague and Friend AUBRÉE Deputy to the Council of Elders. TB political text: "COUASNIER, your successor in BAINS, made me pass 150 livres for your treatment of the month of Germinal like Director of the Jury of this District .... We can no longer touch our salary, however modest it may be, if we compare it to that received by the professors at the Collège de RENNES... Peace has not been disturbed here for some time, although according to the Paris thermometer, the temperature is either rising or falling. The wise and peaceful people conceive of alarms, of dissensions which rise and seem to increase between the first powers of the Republic; One fears a rupture, a shock which plunges France into the horrors of an internal war; One fears to see renewing the Bastilles, the Scaffolds, the Torches and the Daggers. May God turn away from our heads such scourges; and give us the good Spirit to heal the wounds that still bleed. Only peace on the outside and calm on the inside can repair our losses and depend on the union of powers. We feel it here, we say it and we hope that the Council of Elders in its wisdom will be able to maintain it..." - 3pp in-4°.
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ILLE-ET-VILAINE. 1797. Deputy COSTARD (Alexis-Joseph) born in Saint-Méen (Ille et Vilaine) 1753 - Vice-President of the Court of Appeal, Deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine in 1810 - RENNES (35) 19 Fructidor Year 5 (5 Sept 1797) - Autograph letter signed COSTARD, to his former Colleague and Friend AUBRÉE Deputy to the Council of Elders. TB political text: "COUASNIER, your successor in BAINS, made me pass 150 livres for your treatment of the month of Germinal like Director of the Jury of this District .... We can no longer touch our salary, however modest it may be, if we compare it to that received by the professors at the Collège de RENNES... Peace has not been disturbed here for some time, although according to the Paris thermometer, the temperature is either rising or falling. The wise and peaceful people conceive of alarms, of dissensions which rise and seem to increase between the first powers of the Republic; One fears a rupture, a shock which plunges France into the horrors of an internal war; One fears to see renewing the Bastilles, the Scaffolds, the Torches and the Daggers. May God turn away from our heads such scourges; and give us the good Spirit to heal the wounds that still bleed. Only peace on the outside and calm on the inside can repair our losses and depend on the union of powers. We feel it here, we say it and we hope that the Council of Elders in its wisdom will be able to maintain it..." - 3pp in-4°.
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