Pierre-Louis MANUEL (1751-1793) publicist,... - Lot 31 - Rossini

Lot 31
Go to lot
Estimation :
220 - 300 EUR
Pierre-Louis MANUEL (1751-1793) publicist,... - Lot 31 - Rossini
Pierre-Louis MANUEL (1751-1793) publicist, Prosecutor of the Commune of Paris, conventional (Paris); he was guillotined. P.S. (2 times), Paris July 26, 1790; 2 pages and a half in-4, headed Municipalité de Paris. Department of police, vignette with the arms of Paris. Minutes of interrogations concerning the disappearance of sieur DELAUNAY, secretary of the district of the Petits-Pères, who often frequented Mlle de Saint-Germain, living at Cour Saint-Guillaume. Etienne Serveau, limonadier at the Café des Languedociens, and Nicolas Aubron, wigmaker, ladies' hairdresser, testify to their last meetings with the missing man, and "that he did not lack money: Manuel also certifies that the day before his escape, Delaunay asked him for a passport for one of the commissioners of his committee: "occupied with a lot of business, by the confidence that a secretary-registrar inspired in me, I gave him one signed by me, telling him that it would be filled out in his district"...
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue