Jean-Baptiste LOUVET DE COUVRAY (1760-1797) conventioneer (Loiret) and novelist (Faublas). autograph manuscript, September 10, 1792; 2 oblong pages in-8. A cry of joy when the divorce law will allow him to marry his mistress Lodoïska. "At last the divorce is decreed; this revolution for which I fought so bravely, gives me my reward; it gives me a wife, according to my heart!... O felicity! But what, must I tear myself away from my happiness! What then, it would be true that one can never, when one puts down despotism, avoid anarchy! What insolent factious people would pretend to oppress this people for whom we have conquered!... And I am by them calumniated, persecuted, proscribed!... Ah, I hoped to have only deserved Louis XVI and Brunsvich! I hope to have never to fear anything but the blows of the Austrian! I must go into exile to escape the daggers of people who call themselves patriots... What already freedom is taken away from us, and by whom great Gods! Men without talents, without true courage... O my unfortunate country! In which degree of degradation, you are going to fall under the yoke of these unworthy Caesars! And my arm is chained; and I cannot be Brutus; and a Brutus does not appear!... Crime triumphs and innocence is forced to flee; but the reign of these people cannot be long. Farewell my friends... Farewell!" This text is written on the back of a crossed-out fragment of an earlier will, with bequests of various sums in assignats to several people, including his mistress (and future wife) Mme Cholet, to whom he also bequeaths his furniture, "and particularly my great secretary, my watch and my pistols"... In the margin of the first text, Louvet added: "It is on June 2, 93, that I reopen this packet to declare that this will is revoked: since then I have made another one which will be found. On June 2, where we are. Will freedom at least be saved! How much the weak men of the Convention have to reproach themselves! O my country!"