François-Antoine BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826)... - Lot 579 - Rossini

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François-Antoine BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826)... - Lot 579 - Rossini
François-Antoine BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826) conventionnel (Ardèche) and politician. Notes and autograph manuscripts; 35 pages in-4 or in-8. Notes and memories on the Revolution for his memoirs. Possible titles for "Historical, political and moral considerations to serve as an introduction to the history of the Revolution"... "If at the opening of the Estates General instead of the long and insignificant speeches of the ministers the King would have proposed a wise plan of government but carving out for the royalty a great power, everything would have been finished and the French monarchy strengthened for 4 more centuries but Louis did not know how to decide"... Notes on the production of wheat under Louis XVI, compared to those of his predecessors; the confidence of Louis XVI in Mgr de Bausset; the laws on the asylum given to the emigrants, and on the gold and silver held by private individuals... Speculation on what would have happened if the Convention "had decreed the absolution of Louis, or had limited itself to condemning him to detention"... Judgement on the day of the 9th Termidor: "it was a great and salutary revolution in the revolution, it gave back to it its primitive character, that brigands had denatured, it tended to cure the evils of it, to prevent them from reviving, to base its results on the public order and on an equitable legislation it became national as had been in its origin that of 1789 and the whole France breathed"... The Convention: The Convention: "from the 1st session and even before those of its members who came from the most distant departments were all gathered, did it pronounce without discussion on the abolition of royalty and the establishment of the republic, it was unanimous in this resolution [...] but to declare that it would be republic, it was to say nothing since this general name embraces all the combinations of government also if we had the republic since then we had several successive ones all different"... Remarks on the fortifications of Paris; the lack of authority of the Convention ("all the force belonged to the commune which exercised it under the orders and according to the direction given by the Jacobins of the Convention")... Reflection on the unnatural goal of the Revolution: "It is not freedom that men want, it is domination. Freedom is not in nature, it is the ascendancy of strength over weakness, savages are not free, they are dominated by each other according to whether they are stronger or weaker. In the civilized nations, those who ask the most for freedom are those who want it the least, they claim it only as a guarantee against those who would like to enslave them"... As for equality, it was "accepted in good faith by no one"... A few lines on MARAT, who in his infamous Ami du peuple provoked to pillage and murder... Extract of a remonstrance of MALESHERBES on tyranny, distinguishing between that of a master "whose true interest is that of his people and that of a subject enraged by this power to which he was not destined, likes to aggravate the weight of it on his equals"... Draft of regrets addressed to a friend of twenty years, his defender and his comforter, loved as a brother but, it seems, guilty in his purchases of supplies for the army: "When Cambon denounced you and that a decree made you bring to the bar, I was painfully affected and in spite of the presumptions which accused you I could not believe you guilty of infidelity I believed that you had been deceived I believed that you had been the dupe of a displaced confidence, of your own good faith and your inexperience in the functions that you filled and especially perhaps of this unconsidered and prompt character which is born of the frankness and the purity of your soul"...A P.S.: certified copy of a decree relating to the national guard in the Loire-Inférieure, given in Nantes as extraordinary commissioner of S.M. imperial and royal in the 12th military division, on February 22, 1814.
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