DIX août. Manuscript, Night of August 9 to... - Lot 193 - Rossini

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DIX août. Manuscript, Night of August 9 to... - Lot 193 - Rossini
DIX août. Manuscript, Night of August 9 to 10, [1792]; notebook of 23 pages and a quarter in-fol. (slight wetness). Account of the uprising of August 9-10 and the capture of the Tuileries, by a convinced revolutionary, opening with the gathering and arming of the Sections, the tocsin, and the "army avenging the sacred rights of humanity" that went to the castle to disperse the royalists and brigands who were pointing cannons at the citizens... at the National Assembly, the patriots opposed their only courage to the counter-revolutionaries, and the commissioners of the Sections acted with energy and method to dismiss the municipality, to distribute the ammunition, etc. "I saw them, these commissioners of the Sections, and they did not have the courage to act. "I have seen them, these commissioners, as great as the circumstances. When they replaced the turbulent and counter-revolutionary general council that they had just dissolved, I saw them embrace each other and swear in a moment of enthusiasm and inspiration to be chopped up rather than abandon the people's cause. No, I will never forget the deep impression that this beautiful spectacle made on me"... Soon, outside, the heads of the "knights of the Dagger" and of the refractory priests were carried at the end of pikes, the grenadiers withdrew to the gallery of the Louvre and the royal family took refuge in the Assembly. "I came here," said the perfidious Louis as he entered, "to avoid a great crime. The coward!"... Shortly after, the castle was invaded and made a carnage: it was "a vast butchery, sections of limbs cut and palpitating, smoking entrails", etc., while the Swiss barracks were burning. The author praises some acts of humanity and the calm of the citizens, and cites the decrees of the Assembly suspending the "head of the executive power", deciding on the election of a Convention, and dismissing the ministers. "During this time Louis XVI as a degraded being, accustomed to crime, drank and ate as usual; one saw deputies vile enough and scelerate enough to approach the grilled box in which the monsters were, make bows and kiss the impure hand of Antoinette, and these cowardly and infamous men did not receive on the spot the punishment they deserved. A pencil note indicates that this manuscript comes from the papers of Abbé Gobel [probably Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Gobel (1727-guillotiné 1794) deputy to the Estates-General, first bishop to take an oath to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, elected bishop of the Seine; active member of the Jacobin Club.]
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