Jean-Jacques DUVAL d'ÉPRÉMESNIL (1745-guillotined... - Lot 12 - Rossini

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Jean-Jacques DUVAL d'ÉPRÉMESNIL (1745-guillotined... - Lot 12 - Rossini
Jean-Jacques DUVAL d'ÉPRÉMESNIL (1745-guillotined 1794), counselor at the Parliament of Paris, was one of the leaders of the parliamentary opposition; deputy of the nobility (Paris hors les murs) to the Estates General and to the Constituent Assembly, he violently opposed the Revolution; he courageously refused to flee and emigrate and was guillotined. L.A.S., Paris July 18, 1778; 3 pages in-4. Interesting political letter. "You live in the country, you are the happy man of which Horace speaks, who cultivates in peace the field of his fathers, far from the noise of the cities, and the tumult of the businesses: and if freedom reigned in our campaigns like peace, you would enjoy there all the felicity that a wise man can hope for on the earth. The happiness of a Councillor in Parliament is not the same. Times are difficult. It was believed that the recall of the magistracy would re-establish in France the empire of the Laws, the golden age. Laws and finances are still at war. The hardest taxes are increased, the most sacred principles are attacked; [...] there is a way to reconcile the wealth of the King and the liberty of the nation". He foresees a difficult struggle to guarantee the citizens "from the invasions of the arbitrary power"...
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