Jacques-Henri LAURENCEOT (1763-1833) conventionnel... - Lot 163 - Rossini

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Jacques-Henri LAURENCEOT (1763-1833) conventionnel... - Lot 163 - Rossini
Jacques-Henri LAURENCEOT (1763-1833) conventionnel (Jura), proscribed with the Girondins. L.A.S. and L.S., year III (February-June 1795); 2 pages and a quarter in-4, and 1 page in-fol. on his letterhead and vignette. Blois 17 pluviôse (February 5), to a "fellow citizen". About the priests incarcerated in the prison of Blois: "there are a great number of them, among whom several are 70 to 80 years old and infirm, unable to get out of bed, and for whom the Revolutionary Committee of this district asks for enlargement [...] the country is quiet, but some movements seemed to want to erupt concerning the circulation of grain, but I had the principal culprits of this contravention of the law arrested and all is back to normal. Whatever the shortage of subsistances which afflicts the country at this moment, all will remain quiet the people are good and friendly of the laws there it delivers a war to death to the intrigans and especially to the drinkers of blood of which it does not want any more: justice and the National Convention here is their rallying cry"... - Poitiers 28 prairial (June 16), with the Committees of General Safety and Public Safety. He warns that in the departments "of the two Charentes, the two Sèvres and the Vienne it is made in the countryside a considerable distribution of gunpowder the farmers are armed, and hold remarks which would give to think that the malevolence proffite of their greed to embitter them against the government. I was told that this gunpowder came from Paris"... Former collection of Patrice Hennessy (with his ink stamp).
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