Jean-Marie COLLOT D'HERBOIS (1749-1796) Conventional... - Lot 136 - Rossini

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Jean-Marie COLLOT D'HERBOIS (1749-1796) Conventional... - Lot 136 - 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 the purchase of wheat... "By our decrees, the Bleds, and the other members of the council, the government and the people of Beauvais, have been arrested. By our decrees, the wheat, oats, hay and straw which are in the Oise and Aisne are in requisition for the Army of the North [...] The influx of commissioners for the purchase of wheat made one say that one 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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