Bertrand BARèRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) Conventional... - Lot 295 - Rossini

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Bertrand BARèRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) Conventional... - Lot 295 - Rossini
Bertrand BARèRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) Conventional (Hautes-Pyrénées). L.S. partly autograph, Paris June 9, 1793, to Louis-Grégoire Des Champs Destournelles, vice-president of the Paris Commune; 3 pages in-fol. Strong and fraternal denial of having accused the Commune of Paris of tyranny and its members of immorality. He did not pronounce the expressions that the Journal de Paris attributes to him. "I spoke of the Revolutionary Committee when I complained of the unfreedom of the Convention surrounded by armed men; I said that the crime of those who attacked the national Sovereignty was in this Committee, where there were foreigners, and whose names and civic and moral qualities it would be very necessary to know"... But a deputy in revolutionary times cannot go and verify the accuracy of the transmission of his words to a leaflet maker, any more than a member of the Commune could do it. He insists on his patriotic loyalty: "If I knew of some crime to be imputed to the Commune and that the salvation of my country was to be found in accusing it, you would see me present myself first to render this service to the republic. [...] If I needed to be reassured on the intentions of all your colleagues, your guarantee would be enough, because I believe to have shown you the particular esteem that you inspire to those who know you [...] and of which I have several times made known to the unappreciable Garat our friend "... At the time of closing this letter, its last one reaches him: "A single word distresses me, because it is not made to be written by you, because it has to do with men who have only proved their existence to me by their constant hatred, even at the moment when they are spreading slander against me. But for six months such has been my fate to be offended and treated unjustly by all. That will never tire me when it is a question of the good of my fatherland. Have I not proved a hundred and one times that the great city was dear to me, and that it was a bad citizen to seek to decry it, instead of rallying all the departments to it. Who then has made all the addresses in favor of Paris; is it those whom you call my apparent enemies; and if you complain so much about a word that I have never uttered; do I not have more right to complain about a word that you have thought so much about. A true patriot has neither grudge nor hate. I also provoke your justice for me, and I do not preserve less my deep esteem for you "...One L.S. of Louis-Jérôme Gohier, minister of Justice, to Destournelles, June 15, 1793 is joined.
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