Days of OCTOBER 1789. L.S. by 8 deputies of the Ain: GUEIDAN - Lot 69

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Days of OCTOBER 1789. L.S. by 8 deputies of the Ain: GUEIDAN - Lot 69
Days of OCTOBER 1789. L.S. by 8 deputies of the Ain: GUEIDAN, BOTTEX, de La BÉVIÈRE, CARDONDE SANDRANS, PIQUET, BOUVEIRON, POPULUS, DES ORCIÈRES, Versailles October 11, 1789, to their countrymen; 6 pages in-fol. Important letter in which the deputies of the Ain region report on the events taking place at the Constituent Assembly after the days of October 5 and 6 in Paris. They inform them of "the last Revolution". As for the Assembly, "the impetuous movements which were felt near it did not bring any change in its invariable attachment for the constitutional principles of our Monarchy and in its absolute devotion to the Best of the Kings". The deputies deliberated on the reform of criminal procedure; many deputies from the main commercial cities had come to follow the work of the Assembly. But many passports (300) were requested by deputies: some "feared that emigration would be such as to dissolve the assembly"; the delivery of passports was suspended. The King asked that commissioners be appointed to search for a place in Paris to transfer the Assembly; some deputies feared that they would not be safe in Paris, and wanted to be assured of the inviolability of the parliamentarians; already threats "had resounded in the capital among the people gathered against the members of the clergy in general [...] some were designated among the deputies of the Nobility and of the communes"... TALLEYRAND, "the Bishop of Autun", intervenes. But BRISSOT de Warville comes, at the head of a deputation, "to testify to the assembly the respectful congratulations of the City of Paris on what it is going to possess the National Assembly [...] that in the instant all the citizens swore and promised to carry respect to the Deputies [...] that the times of storm were passed, that the allegiance was manifested in the capital, that it rejoiced to have saved lately several victims devoted to a certain death"... One would have discovered "an awful plot, that a league was formed under the name of the counter-revolution [...] several people were arrested". The count of SAINT-PRIEST was questioned by MIRABEAU "on the occasion of the reproaches which one made to the Parisians; he said that he denounced this Minister for having said to the women arrived Monday tumultuously from Paris: "When you had only one King, you had bread abundantly, you have at present twelve hundred Kings, and bread misses to you, go to ask them for some!" What makes this accusation infinitely serious is that as soon as the King was in Paris, bread appeared in abundance, people sought to exchange many of the formerly baked breads for fresh ones, and the bakers had far fewer batches to make"... They then speak about the "very beautiful speech" of the bishop of Autun, TALLEYRAND, "in which he tried to prove that the Nation could dispose of the goods of the Church especially when the salvation of the State required it"; the arguments are very developed... "the speaker received the most lively applause"... An attached note gives the "list of the people arrested in Paris" (among which the marquis of Livron, the count of Tressan...). Former collection of Patrice Hennessy.
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