Pierre-François PALLOY (1754-1835) contractor, demolisher of - Lot 647

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Pierre-François PALLOY (1754-1835) contractor, demolisher of - Lot 647
Pierre-François PALLOY (1754-1835) contractor, demolisher of the Bastille. L.S. "Palloy Patriote", to M. Morin [Colonel Maurin]; 1 page folio, vignette with the effigy of Louis-Philippe I. Evocation of his arrest under the Terror, for the famous collector of revolutionary souvenirs He could not find Saint-Just's handwriting in his papers, "unless it was in my detention, having been in the Cafarnaum. I have discarded a lot of papers, when I think of this terror that reigned in France I shudder. I was arrested under his signature and put in prison at the time of this ephemeral Government where the laws were violated. One trembled to call oneself a patriot and a human being under the rule of these anthropophagi. I was in the dungeon for three months. [...] One could rightly say that the French were attacked by the tarantula; madness which had manifested itself in all France where several Bastilles more terrible than the one you have of me had been established"... He insisted on answering on a paper "decorated with the vignette of Louis Philippe 1st, whom I love and will serve until the grave" .... He had inscribed above the portrait of the king: "Examine the physiognomy of this wise monarch".
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