Bertrand BARèRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) Conventional... - Lot 646 - Rossini

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Bertrand BARèRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) Conventional... - Lot 646 - Rossini
Bertrand BARèRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) Conventional (Hautes-Pyrénées). Fine L.A.S., [ca. 1830], to a former fellow conventioneer; 3 pages in-4 (4th leaf), watermark with the effigy of Napoleon Emperor and King. On the responsibility of the future Louis XVIII in the death of Philippe-Égalité and of some nobles or generals who had embraced the cause of the Revolution. "The influence that Louis Stanislas Xavier count of Provence had already exerted in Paris against noble generals employed in the armies of the Republic, (such as general Byron cy-dt duc de Lauzun, Custine and the viscount of Beauharnais), either with the intention of making them suspect as nobles, or to manage to get rid of all the former members of the order of the nobility who had taken side for freedom, was sensed and known by some enlightened conventionals and by the patriots observers of the conspiracies of the emigration carried out in France "... The count of Provence had in the offices of the minister of war, devoted agents such as the division chiefs Vincent and the general Ronsin, "who denounced to the Club of the Cordeliers the general Biron (duke of Lauzun,) and who by their lying reports and their intrigues made send it to the revolutre court", and he also used a named Héron, to the secretariat of the Committee of General Safety. "My suspicions on the influence that the intrigues and the intelligences of Monsieur so-called regent of France had on the persecutions experienced by Mr. Duke of Orleans in 1793, appeared to me confirmed by the atrocious vociferations and the coarse abuses that miserable soldiers and former bodyguards disguised [......] uttered on the fatal day of the judgment, especially in front of the door of the Palais Royal", whereas the people of Paris had remained attached to him... Besides, the republicans had no interest in the death of the duke, and the conventionals, the most interested, were less interested than the emigrated princes in Coblentz... How did the assembly let itself be led by intrigues? Always, "in the political revolutions, there is a kind of fatality which makes appear absent or exiled, justice and moderation. Woe to the individuals persecuted or judged in such crises, where everyone suspects, accuses and deliberates, not so much out of conviction as to obey the prevailing opinion, or to avoid appearing to be part of the defeated faction! Here are [...] the facts and the thoughts that I would express publicly, if I were called upon to write the History of the men of my time"... A L.A.S. to M. Jennetet, Tarbes September 21, 1836 (2 p. in-8), referring to Edmond Blanc and Thomas de Gasparin.
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