Antoine DORFEUILLE (1750-1795) actor and literary scholar, h - Lot 178

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Antoine DORFEUILLE (1750-1795) actor and literary scholar, h - Lot 178
Antoine DORFEUILLE (1750-1795) actor and literary scholar, he preached the Revolution and presided over the commission of justice that judged the insurgents of Lyon, where he was noted for his cruelty; he was arrested after the 9th Thermidor and massacred in his prison. L.A.S., Chambéry 8 germinal II (March 28, 1794), to the Commune of Paris; 1 page in-4. He invites his "brothers and friends" to read an extract from the minutes of the Jacobins of Chambéry. "You will see that the patriots from one end of the republic to the other have only one heart and one soul, that if the crime changes of expression according to the individual who professes it, the virtue has only one language and that this language is ours to all "...
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