Bon-Claude CAHIER de Gerville (1751-1816) Prosecutor-Syndic - Lot 130

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Bon-Claude CAHIER de Gerville (1751-1816) Prosecutor-Syndic - Lot 130
Bon-Claude CAHIER de Gerville (1751-1816) Prosecutor-Syndic of the Commune of Paris, minister of the Interior. L.A.S., Paris April 2, 1791; 1 page in-4, headed and vignetted Municipality of Paris, Procureur de la Commune. Curious letter concerning the tragic events surrounding the death of MIRABEAU, written the very day of his death. [During the night of April 1st to 2nd, while Mirabeau was dying on his deathbed in his hotel in the Chaussée d'Antin, his secretary Etienne de Comps was found lying on the floor of his room, bloody, struck with five stab wounds... Was it a failed suicide out of fanaticism for his master, or an assassination, or a plot? This mystery was never solved...] Cahier asks a justice of the peace and a commissioner to give the bearer "all the information they may have on the frightening adventure that happened last night at M. de Mirabeau's house. I do not need to make them feel how important it is to acquire proofs on the cause of the event & not to lose a single means of obtaining confessions ". Answer at the bottom of the letter, probably by Maugis (administrator of the municipal police): "we are occupied with the wounded man whom we have a lot of trouble to hear and whom we cannot interrogate immediately. It seems [...] that he had spent three days without eating which had heated his head, that he always heard about poison which Mr. de Mirabeau was threatened with and that he must have even taken some"; the interrogation is so disordered that he cannot give more details...
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