Jean-Louis-Claude EMMERY (1742-1823) was... - Lot 111 - Rossini

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Jean-Louis-Claude EMMERY (1742-1823) was... - Lot 111 - Rossini
Jean-Louis-Claude EMMERY (1742-1823) was a lawyer, deputy of the Tiers de Metz to the Estates General, kingpin of the Military Committee where he played a great role in the reorganization of the army, president of the Constituent Assembly, senator and peer of France. L.A. (minute), [1790?], probably to a Committee of Public Safety in Metz, of which he was a deputy; 2 pages in-4 and 2 pages in-fol. filled with a tight handwriting, with numerous erasures and corrections. He congratulates his correspondents for the zeal they put in preserving the public order, and speaks about several affairs.It is necessary to investigate what happened inCourcelles Chaussy on October 18, where parishioners had the Te Deum sung, as a result of which the public prosecutor filed a complaint against the inhabitants... Emmery takes the defense of the marshal de Broglie, whose luggage and that of his family are held in Metz for verification:"The prince of Broglie whose popularity is known and who showed himself constantly good patriot must write to you to ask you gentlemen to solicit in his name the justice of the good people of Mets, I believe that his letter made public will produce all the effect that he has the right to expect from it"... Etc. We join 2 L.A.S. of his son, 1823-1824.
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