Claude PETIET (1749-1806) politician, minister of War. L.S. - Lot 121

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Claude PETIET (1749-1806) politician, minister of War. L.S. - Lot 121
Claude PETIET (1749-1806) politician, minister of War. L.S. (2 times), co-signed by 4 other administrators of the Directory of the department of Ille-et-Vilaine, Rennes January 23, 1791, to the administrators of the district of Dinan; 4 pages in-4. They cannot provide the desired infantrymen and dragoons: Rennes has no more infantrymen and only 120 dragoons, a force that is not very considerable "at a time when the enemies of the public good are intriguing on all sides and are trying to take advantage of the resistance of the priests, to foment disorder and to put the inhabitants of the cities at odds with those of the countryside; the present crisis is one of the strongest that we have yet had to support, we will only come to the end of it with prudence and circumspection. It is by persuasion and not by arms that we must bring back the inhabitants of the countryside to the principles of justice and reason from which they are constantly turned away"...
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