Philippe DUMONT (1765-1833) Conventional (Calvados). L.A.S, Paris October 21, 1792, to the administrators of Calvados; 2 pages. in-fol. Very interesting letter on the dissensions between the departments and Paris. The Convention received the address of the department of Calvados "concerning the guarding of the 83 departemens with which the National Convention must surround itself [...] question which divides at this moment the assembly and agitates the people of Paris". Buzot, Gensonné and Barbaroux took the party to read it: "The applause covered the murmurs for a long time". Dupont then describes the disorder that it caused in the Convention, some deputies wanting to debate this question, others wanting to stick to the agenda - a solution that was adopted. But the address will be printed and sent to the 83 departments. "You will have imitators and the Parisians will finally learn that they are only a part of a whole, a portion of the Republic. They will learn that the citizens of the departments watch over them, and that they have not applauded the Shiite of a tyrant to crawl under the municipal despotism of Paris"... Former Patrice Hennessy collection.