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CONSEIL DES 500 (En-tête imp., vignette) - Extrait du Procès-verbal des Séances du Conseil des Cinq-Cents, du 4 Pluviôse An 7 (23 Janvier 1799) - 1p1/2 in-folio - Seal under paper - Piece signed, for true copy, Jean Baptiste LECLERC (Conventionnel du MAINE ET LOIRE), Gaspard Jean Joseph LESAGE-SÉNAULT (Conventionnel du NORD), Louis VITET (Conventionnel de RHÔNE-ET-LOIRE) - Mention honorable pour les Dons patriotiques des Citoyens du Canton de LA GUERCHE qui veulent concourir au succès de la Guerre contre l'Angleterre.

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CONSEIL DES 500 (En-tête imp., vignette) - Extrait du Procès-verbal des Séances du Conseil des Cinq-Cents, du 4 Pluviôse An 7 (23 Janvier 1799) - 1p1/2 in-folio - Seal under paper - Piece signed, for true copy, Jean Baptiste LECLERC (Conventionnel du MAINE ET LOIRE), Gaspard Jean Joseph LESAGE-SÉNAULT (Conventionnel du NORD), Louis VITET (Conventionnel de RHÔNE-ET-LOIRE) - Mention honorable pour les Dons patriotiques des Citoyens du Canton de LA GUERCHE qui veulent concourir au succès de la Guerre contre l'Angleterre.

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Marc-Antoine JULLIEN de Paris (1775-1848) politician and publicist, entrusted with important missions during the Terror. L.A.S., Genoa 21 messidor VII (July 9, 1799), to his friend BRIOT of the Conseil des 500; 4 large fol. pages on his letterhead and vignette. Very interesting and long letter on the catastrophic situation in Italy, where the army is in complete destitution. ... "I fear sleepers more than alarmists. We have been sleeping for so long and the abyss is deepening... and the conspirators who have sold the blood of our soldiers, the blood of the people, and Switzerland, Italy and France, they are triumphing... freedom is perishing [...] and no decisive action has yet been taken [...] MACDONALD's army has evacuated Tuscany [....] We no longer have any communication with the unfortunate Neapolitan Republic, which is covered with insurrections and is almost nothing more than a Royal Vendée [...] the sad Roman Republic is a gaunt skeleton [...] no bread, no gold, no energy, no public spirit"... Insurrection was everywhere, the enemy was gaining ground, reinforcements were not coming, anarchy was sweeping through the army, etc. "Our way of evacuating is the height of horror. We impose and loot. [...] the French name is dishonored, freedom is sullied; we are losing everything, even our honor"... Jullien paints a critical picture of Italy, region by region. He condemns "the impious war of Switzerland and the disastrous and impolitic expedition of Egypt". He outlines a rescue plan, urgent measures to be taken, indicates laws to be enacted, and exclaims: "Proclaim the Italian R[epubli]que, and you offer a powerful motive to discouraged and desperate men who will henceforth know for what interests they can lavish their lives. A Nale assembly and an Italian army will be formed. Don't waste a moment"...

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Stanislas-Louis-Marie FRÉRON (1754-1802) journalist, Conventionnel (Paris), charged with missions in the Midi where he distinguished himself by bloody repressions; after Thermidor, he led the reactionary youth and was Pauline Bonaparte's lover. L.A.S., Montélimar 11 pluviôse IV (January 31, 1796), to Jacques REVERCHON, "his former colleague and friend"; 2 fol. pages on his letterhead Fréron, Commissaire du Gouvernement, en mission dans les Departemens de la Drôme, de Vaucluse, du Gard, des Bouches-du-Rhône, du Var, des Hautes & Basses-Alpes, small vignette. Important letter concerning his mission in the Midi to extinguish the White Terror. Fréron leaves immediately for Avignon, Bagnols, and La Bégude, where "gatherings are forming on the side of the Jalès camp"; he has given orders to dissipate them. "This is a vast plan. I have invested almost all the main communes of the Comtat: I have only been able to bring back a hundred or so deserters: I have established military councils everywhere, according to the law. The armed deserters are taking refuge in the inaccessible mountains. They have observation launches; they light fires, and their rifles shine. Various reports put their numbers at 800 on the Buys, haut Comtat side, and 4,000 in the Nyons district alone. All measures have been taken; but given the inadequacy of the troops, who are very few in number, I cannot surround them; I don't have a thousand men. I'm asking you, my dear colleague, to help me smother the birth of this new Vendée, the work of the Bésignan, Bouvenot, Charrette L'Estang and others. I'd need 500 men of infantry, and 100 men of cavalry: I'm tired of turning to Kellerman, from whom I've never been able to get anything. If you can send me these forces to Avignon, by sending them down the Rhône, I will be responsible for the salvation of the whole bank of the Rhône, and it will be easy for me to establish garrisons in the Comtat: this is indispensable; for if I am obliged to withdraw the troops, the murders will begin again with greater fury.A.S. "Freron La Poype" from his sister Jeanne-Thérèse Fréron, Mme Jean-François de La Poype, to Lucile DESMOULINS, Coubertin September 2, expressing her concern at not having any news of her husband: "informez vous a Mr Danton et écrivez moi"...

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