Louis-Marie de LA RÉVELLIÈRE-LÉPEAUX (1753-1824)... - Lot 548 - Rossini

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Louis-Marie de LA RÉVELLIÈRE-LÉPEAUX (1753-1824)... - Lot 548 - Rossini
Louis-Marie de LA RÉVELLIÈRE-LÉPEAUX (1753-1824) deputy to the Constituent Assembly, conventional (Maine-et-Loire), member of the Directory. P.S. as President of the Executive Directory, countersigned by Joseph-Jean Lagarde, Secretary General, Paris 1er fructidor IV (August 18, 1796); notebook of 9 pages and a half in-fol. (stamp of the Crawford collection). Conditions of peace of the Directory with the Pope Pius VI. "His Holiness Pope Pius VI, having testified the desire to re-establish his relations of union and good harmony with the French Republic," the Directory appointed citizens Garrau and Saliceti to treat with the Pope's plenipotentiary (the name remained blank) of the "clauses and conditions of the Peace," listed in 21 articles. In particular (art. 2): "The Pope revokes any adhesion, consent, and patented or secret accession, by him given to the armed coalition against the French Republic, to any treaty of offensive or deffensive alliance which it could have concluded against it, with any power or state that it is, He commits himself not to provide, as well for the current war as for the wars to come, to any of the powers armed against the French Republic, any help in men, vessels, weapons, ammunition of war, foodstuffs and money"...; he will be able to (art. 3) "to give passage on its territory to the enemy troops of the French Republic. The French troops will enjoy at all times the free passage in the States of the Pope. They will behave there as it is appropriate in a neutral and friendly country". He recognizes (art. 4) that "common enemies have abused his trust and surprised his religion, to dispatch, publish and spread in his name, various acts, whose principle and effect are equally contrary to his true intentions and to the respective rights of Nations. Consequently, His Holiness disavows, revokes and annuls all bulls, rescripts, writs, apostolic mandates, circular letters or others, monitories, pastoral instructions, and generally all writings and acts emanating from the authority of the Holy See, and from any other authority having jurisdiction therein, which would be relative to the affairs of France from 1789 to the present day. The Pope disavowed the assassination of Basseville, French ambassador in Rome; the French citizens expelled from the Papal States were set free, and the proceedings against them were annulled. The territories and the goods belonging to France, will be restored and given to the French Republic to possess, sell and alienate them with its will... Article 16 concerns the castrates and prohibits "the degradation of the male Sex in the children or the adults". The Tribunal of the Inquisition will be abolished: "no person in the future will be able to be deprived of his liberty, or to be pursued for his religious opinions" The Pope will be obliged to give asylum and means of subsistence to all the religious who would like to withdraw in his States. Art. 18 : " The Pope renounces purely and simply, all the rights that he could claim on the city and territory of Avignon, the Venaissin county and its dependences, and transports, yields and abandons the aforementioned rights to the French Republic "... Etc.
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