Marie-Joseph CHALIER (1747-1793) President... - Lot 261 - Rossini

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Marie-Joseph CHALIER (1747-1793) President... - Lot 261 - Rossini
Marie-Joseph CHALIER (1747-1793) President of the District of Lyon, leader of the Montagnard party in Lyon, he was guillotined. L.A.S., Lyon March 4, 1793, to the Citizens Deputies Commissioners of the Convention, at the Hotel de Milan; 1 page in-4 (slight fading). Rare denunciation of the persecutions directed against him by the Marseillais. "Since the 19th of last month I have been obliged to leave my home. The Marseillois that I believed to be the defenders of the true patriots have come, as you know, to increase the number of my assassins and they are still in Lyon! Ah! no, without a doubt, they are not. Ordered that for the safety of my person the officers answer on their heads for the one that some malintentioned among them said to want absolutely to slaughter. It is time finally, that my life which is employed only for the salvation of the people is in safety "...
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