Jacques-Nicolas BILLAUD-VARENNE (1756-1819)... - Lot 272 - Rossini

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Jacques-Nicolas BILLAUD-VARENNE (1756-1819)... - Lot 272 - Rossini
Jacques-Nicolas BILLAUD-VARENNE (1756-1819) conventionnel (Paris), member of the Committee of Public Safety, he was deported. Autograph manuscript signed, co-signed by Joseph SEVESTRE, Proclamation des députés, commissaires de la convention nationale dans les départements de lisle et vilaine et des côtes du nord, pour les " malheureux habitans des campagnes ", [Bretagne fin mars 1793]; 6 pages in-fol. Important proclamation to incite the Breton peasants to abandon the rebels and join the Revolution. It was intended to be printed as a placard (poster) and printed in a thousand copies, as indicated in a note at the head. Billaud-Varenne and Sevestre had been sent to the two departments to hasten the raising of 300,000 men, which caused uprisings. "You are revolting! And against whom? Against your brothers! It is you who are carrying iron and fire into the towns that buy your food and provide for you! Eh! don't you see that by ruining, that by slitting the throats of your fellow citizens, your friends; you run to your own ruin! You for whom the Revolution was especially made; you whom it tore away from the Tyranny of the lords; from the devastations of the right to hunt; from the rigors of the corvée; from the inquisition of the financiers; you whom it discharged from the dime, from the taille, from the feudal rights; you to whom the Revolution restored all the old properties, all the factories, all the communal areas that the cidevant-lords had usurped you; you finally that this Revolution filled with benefits; it is you who take the weapons to destroy it! " He continues by explaining the deceit and treachery of the priests and lords who think only of re-establishing the old tyranny and of handing over their country to the foreigner... Their fault is most serious and deserves death;" but the National Convention does not forget that you are the children of the Fatherland. It therefore extends its arms to you, as a tender and indulgent mother. Return with confidence to your homes. [...] Know how to cherish those whom victory has made masters of your goods and of your life; but who have only defeated you in order to give you grace. Break off for ever all links with these refractory priests, with these emigrants, with these so-called nobles against revolutionaries [...] Remember that after having been their accomplices, in order to deserve your forgiveness, [...] declare who the leaders of this liberticidal conspiracy are. [...] People lost in the countryside; the deputy commissioners of the National Convention therefore summon you in the name of the Law, swearing peace and fraternity, to return to your homes within 24 hours [...] also summon you to provide within 24 hours the contingent for the recruitment of the army; and to pay within the same period the arrears of your contributions. It is on the borders; it is on our coasts that the enemies you have to fight are. It is there that it is permitted to arm oneself to defend one's life and one's property. It is there that the mother country calls her children to help her. [...] Give therefore both the soldiers and the contributions destined to equip and feed them. It is by this striking proof of your love for liberty that you will complete the healing of the wounds you have just caused to the Fatherland; and you will definitively repair the disastrous effects of your rebellion...
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