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Antoine DURANTHON (1736-guillotiné 1793) lawyer, public prosecutor in Bordeaux, minister of Justice. L.S. with autograph postscript, Paris May 14, 1792, to M. PERY, procureur syndic of the District in Bordeaux; 1 and a half pages in-4. He is happy that Pery succeeds him... "If my constant efforts in my new administrative career were followed by some successes, it would be very sweet for me to share the glory with my former colleagues of the District. [...] I see with sorrow the embarrassment in which you are plunged by the distribution of the movable contribution, and I will call the attention of Mr. Clavière to this object, as well as to the necessity of finding a means of relieving the countryside, whose inhabitants you will succeed in enlightening by following the wise principles which we have often developed in the Directory"...
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Antoine DURANTHON (1736-guillotiné 1793) lawyer, public prosecutor in Bordeaux, minister of Justice. L.S. with autograph postscript, Paris May 14, 1792, to M. PERY, procureur syndic of the District in Bordeaux; 1 and a half pages in-4. He is happy that Pery succeeds him... "If my constant efforts in my new administrative career were followed by some successes, it would be very sweet for me to share the glory with my former colleagues of the District. [...] I see with sorrow the embarrassment in which you are plunged by the distribution of the movable contribution, and I will call the attention of Mr. Clavière to this object, as well as to the necessity of finding a means of relieving the countryside, whose inhabitants you will succeed in enlightening by following the wise principles which we have often developed in the Directory"...
