Jean-Marie COLLOT D'HERBOIS (1749-1796) Conventional... - Lot 317 - Rossini

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Jean-Marie COLLOT D'HERBOIS (1749-1796) Conventional... - Lot 317 - Rossini
Jean-Marie COLLOT D'HERBOIS (1749-1796) Conventional (Paris), member of the Comité de Salut public, one of the most fiery Jacobins. L.S., co-signed by Jacques ISORÉ, Beauvais August 17, 1793, to their colleagues DUMONT and LEBON; 1 1/4 pages in-fol. About the arrest of the citizen d'Ebécourt, commissioner for wheat purchases... "By our decrees, the wheat, oats, hay and straw which are in the Oise and Aisne are required for the Army of the North [...] The influx of commissioners for wheat purchases has made people say that they wanted to starve Paris"... About the general levy of bachelors, they indicate: "The People seems well disposed it is necessary to benefit from its energy and the subsistances which will not miss us has present "... One joined a cut signature, bottom of letter co-signed by Hérault de Séchelles. Former Crawford collection (stamp of the Bibliotheca Lindesiana).
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