Antoine-Joseph SANTERRE (1752-1809) brewer,... - Lot 560 - Rossini

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Antoine-Joseph SANTERRE (1752-1809) brewer,... - Lot 560 - Rossini
Antoine-Joseph SANTERRE (1752-1809) brewer, leader of the revolutionary days, commander of the Parisian Guard, then general. L.A.S., 5th supplementary day V (September 21, 1797), to Citizen Director Barras; 2 pages in-fol. Santerre reproaches Barras for his lack of support to the minister Daru concerning his horse trade to the armies, underlining the strong prejudice caused to him by the loss of this market. "You have referred my memoir to the minister, that is to say, to make him judge in his own case. I was addressing you because you are his superior and you have the right to force him to do justice. [But, Citizen Director, what did I ask you to do? To order the execution of the Minister's obligatory conditions towards me, since this would be to the advantage of the Republic and of me, and since the Republic lacks horses. One wants to destroy the old markets to make new ones; what is this advantage for the Republic? I made a market at 200 per horse below the old markets - Daru to destroy my means of supplying at this price gave the market to 10 people ", to thus remove to him by competition any possibility of supplying; moreover he froze all the payments... " I have thus right [...] to your protection & to your support ". He spent 500 thousand pounds, all the savings of 25 years of trade and the heritage of his children. "I fought and shed my blood for the Republic, I wore chains for it for eleven months, I am one of its founders. I was forced by indication of the minister of the police to sell my brewery", and he has no other resource... As for the 18 fructidor, "bound to your fate", he had gone before the coup d'état to offer his services to general Augereau, then he went "to recruit an external and auxiliary army in case of event [...I do not ask you for a place, I ask you for justice by opposing your authority to make sure that my rights are not violated"... A printed booklet, Ordres du jour inédits de Santerre, by Edmond Dutemple (Paris, Derenne, 1875; in-8 rel. half cloth).
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