Mathieu-Guillaume VILLENAVE (1762-1846) journalist,... - Lot 586 - Rossini

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Mathieu-Guillaume VILLENAVE (1762-1846) journalist,... - Lot 586 - Rossini
Mathieu-Guillaume VILLENAVE (1762-1846) journalist, member of the Court of Nantes, defender of the Vendéens, he gathered an enormous collection of autographs, in particular on the Revolution. Autograph manuscripts for Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Révolution; 89 pages in various formats. Documentation for memoirs that never saw the light of day. In an Empire-era folder labeled "1790": copies of letters from Pius VI to Abbé Maury, letter and prospectus relating to Villenave's publication projects, "compliment of the ladies of the nation" to "MM. de la nation," probably apocryphal. Copies of pre-revolutionary letters and documents, including extracts from court registers and registers of various jurisdictions, pleadings or testimonies before the Criminal Court of Nantes, minutes of official and personal correspondence of Villenave, partly extracted from a register 1792-1800, to the lawyer Raguideau, to the prisoner Ingouville, to the citizen Guesdon, director general of the administrative and judicial agency in Paris, to the general Montbrun, to his mother, etc. Plus l.a.s. (minutes) to Anatole de Montesquiou and to the minister Montalivet, 1831.
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