Alexandre de LAMETH (1760-1829) officer,... - Lot 578 - Rossini

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Alexandre de LAMETH (1760-1829) officer,... - Lot 578 - Rossini
Alexandre de LAMETH (1760-1829) officer, deputy of the nobility of the bailliage of Péronne to the States General and to the Constituent Assembly, marshal of camp, he emigrated with Lafayette; prefect under the Empire, and liberal deputy under the Restoration. Autograph notes and manuscripts; 15 pages various sizes (6 in-fol.). Drafts of speeches, notes and political reflections. Lameth makes many reflections and looks for the causes of the events, going back to Necker. He highlights "the clumsily preserved etiquette of the Court", "the impolitical conduct of most of the nobles who repudiated any idea of improvement in the fate of the nation"; he evokes the territorial equality, the formation of the departmental assemblies, the elections of the deputies, the distribution of the properties, the appeals of the bishops to maintain the old laws, the importance of the tradition. He considers the possible forms of government, as in England or in the United States of America... He cites the work of the Abbé de Montgaillard, "the most important of all those that have been published on the revolution": "The faults of the former government are traced there with enough exactitude, sometimes with exaggeration and always in a way to please, rather than to enlighten those who having not been the witnesses form in general an idea of it which is not at all in conformity with reality"...According to him, no writer was impartial, "young writers very distinguished by their talents, exercised them on this great drama, libels which obtained the sanction of the University become ultramontane and which were intended to become classic at the foreseen moment, and called by so many powerful intrigues, where the education would be entirely delivered to the immoral congregation of the Jesuits"... Attached is a L.A.S., Paris, October 27, 1826, sending to M. Raffard his modest contribution for the monument in honor of Boissy d'Anglas.
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