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CARRIER (Jean-Baptiste). Autograph Apostille signed as Conventionnel en mission auprès de l'armée de l'Ouest (Nantes, December 1793, 3 lines) addressed to the bureau des classes de Nantes, on a letter addressed to him by Adjutant-General Jean François Xavier Mangen (Nantes, 23 frimaire an II - 13 décembre 1793, une p. in-folio , address au dos, deux petits manques de papier dus à l'ouverture sans atteinte au texte). Rare reminder of the terrible Carrier's presence in Nantes. When General Charette took Noirmoutier in October 1793, the Republicans feared that the island would be used by the English to organize a raid on France, and General Turreau organized an operation to recapture it. He entrusted brigade commander Nicolas-Louis Jordy and general Nicolas Haxo with the task: on the night of January 3 to 4, 1794, the royalists were defeated and Noirmoutier returned to the Republic. Jean François Xavier Mangen wrote to Jean-Baptiste Carrier: "You will please give the order to have the bureau des classes [in charge of Navy personnel] publish to all citizens who are part of the armament of the gabarres, and other vessels, concerning the attack on Noirmoutier, to join at once at the place of their destination at Paimbœuf [Nantes' main outport in the Loire estuary], under the most severe penalties, because according to the interview I just had with the chief engineer of the Navy, everything is ready and even most of the ships are already in Paimbœuf, and if it weren't for an end wind we would leave today to go there; The citizen named Degay [Marine engineer Pierre de Gay] has put into this operation all the intelligence and activity of a true republican. I have also informed General Haxo..." Jean-Baptiste Carrier forwarded the letter to the class office, with the following injunction in his own handwriting: "The class office will immediately comply with the contents of this letter and will report back to the people's representative within the day...". A person from the class office then noted for the record: "Donné ordre sur le champ de publier l'énoncé de la présente, et instruit le même jour le r[eprésentant] du p[euple] que son ordre avoit été mise à exécution."
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CARRIER (Jean-Baptiste). Autograph Apostille signed as Conventionnel en mission auprès de l'armée de l'Ouest (Nantes, December 1793, 3 lines) addressed to the bureau des classes de Nantes, on a letter addressed to him by Adjutant-General Jean François Xavier Mangen (Nantes, 23 frimaire an II - 13 décembre 1793, une p. in-folio , address au dos, deux petits manques de papier dus à l'ouverture sans atteinte au texte). Rare reminder of the terrible Carrier's presence in Nantes. When General Charette took Noirmoutier in October 1793, the Republicans feared that the island would be used by the English to organize a raid on France, and General Turreau organized an operation to recapture it. He entrusted brigade commander Nicolas-Louis Jordy and general Nicolas Haxo with the task: on the night of January 3 to 4, 1794, the royalists were defeated and Noirmoutier returned to the Republic. Jean François Xavier Mangen wrote to Jean-Baptiste Carrier: "You will please give the order to have the bureau des classes [in charge of Navy personnel] publish to all citizens who are part of the armament of the gabarres, and other vessels, concerning the attack on Noirmoutier, to join at once at the place of their destination at Paimbœuf [Nantes' main outport in the Loire estuary], under the most severe penalties, because according to the interview I just had with the chief engineer of the Navy, everything is ready and even most of the ships are already in Paimbœuf, and if it weren't for an end wind we would leave today to go there; The citizen named Degay [Marine engineer Pierre de Gay] has put into this operation all the intelligence and activity of a true republican. I have also informed General Haxo..." Jean-Baptiste Carrier forwarded the letter to the class office, with the following injunction in his own handwriting: "The class office will immediately comply with the contents of this letter and will report back to the people's representative within the day...". A person from the class office then noted for the record: "Donné ordre sur le champ de publier l'énoncé de la présente, et instruit le même jour le r[eprésentant] du p[euple] que son ordre avoit été mise à exécution."
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