Armand-Gaston CAMUS (1740-1804) politician and administrator, conventionnel (Haute-Loire), the organizer of the Archives Nationales. L.A. (minute), Paris March 23, II (1793), to his colleagues on mission in Belgium; 7 pages and a quarter in-4. Important letter on Belgium. He tells about his arrival at the Convention, where the spirits are dismayed by the "affair of the 18th" (rout of Dumouriez at Neerwinde), and where a lot of false news is spread. Camus asked for the floor "on the state of the army and on the spirit of the people in Belgium [...] the army in a state to defend itself and having really to fear only the indiscipline and the treason of the stains and the fugitives; the Belgians as a people who wants to unite with the Republic, that one exasperated by imprudences of the vexations"... Camus then went to the War Committee and the General Defense Committee, where they talked a lot about "the Generals and their faults". He then relates his altercation with Camille DESMOULINS, accusing Treilhard and Camus of having, in recognition of services rendered under the old regime, removed Dampierre from his command to give it to Lanoue, and of having more or less removed Fourcade, Gouchon and Fauchet "who were working usefully in Belgium". Camus asks his colleagues to help him justify himself. He speaks then about the possible sending of national guards in Belgium...Former collection Patrice Hennessy (with his stamp).