François BUZOT (1760-1794) and Armand-Gui... - Lot 224 - Rossini

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François BUZOT (1760-1794) and Armand-Gui... - Lot 224 - Rossini
François BUZOT (1760-1794) and Armand-Gui de KERSAINT (1742-1793) conventionals, guillotined. P.S. by both as Secretaries of the National Convention, Paris October 19, 1792; 4 pages in-fol., seal under paper. On the troubles and massacres of Cambrai. True copy of the letter of the "Commissioners to the army of the North" Doulcet and Duquesnoy, of October 12, 1792. The Gendarmes Nationaux arrived at Cambrai, brought out the prisoners from the jails and cut off the head of an accused of theft. They went to the citadel; a lieutenant colonel who tried to get his soldiers to return to order was denounced as an aristocrat and had his head cut off. A captain "was decapitated and his head was carried through the streets at the end of a bayonet. Citizen Bouchotte, who was temporarily in command in Cambray, ran the risk of bringing order and preventing disasters. The disarmament caused a great fermentation in Cambrai, the municipality was threatened. It is feared that with the new arrival of gendarmes, "Cambrai will be the scene of new bloody scenes", that aristocrats will become "necessary victims" and that the patriotism of the gendarmes of Douai will be misled by inttrigents...
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