Joseph de BARRUEL-BEAUVERT (1756-1817) ardent... - Lot 205 - Rossini

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Joseph de BARRUEL-BEAUVERT (1756-1817) ardent... - Lot 205 - Rossini
Joseph de BARRUEL-BEAUVERT (1756-1817) ardent royalist, one of the editors of the Acts of the Apostles, writer, he was imprisoned in the Temple. Autograph manuscript, and 2 L.A.S., [1796]-1808; 5 pages in-4. autograph MANUSCRIT, signed "Grenier patriote de tous les tems" (2 p. in-4, stamp of the Hennessy collection). This text, addressed to the "Editors of all the truly patriotic newspapers", attacks violently the Jacobins, "having the fever of the Tiger and not being able to get tired of revolting, of plundering, of raping, of murdering, of drinking pure blood or soaked with tears". Alluding to Babeuf's conspiracy, he mocks the deputies who want the people to believe "that Jacobins or Royalists are the same men!" He points to DROUET who "lost Louis XVI [...] Drouet and Santerre, who were the main agents of the King's death"... But "the people are not unaware that the ci-devant Count of Barruel-Beauvert, elector, full of fire, who came, with lungs of stentor, to claim in the Sections of Paris insurgent against the authority of the Convention, the setting free, without any condition of the daughter of Louis XVI, is not jacobin!... The Jacobins have never done anything but evil, the Royalists, unless one wants to judge the intentional question of Vendémiaire, have never done any evil [...] The Royalists are only after the government, and the Jacobins are after the men and the properties "... L.A.S., "At the tower of the Temple" 10 nivôse X (December 31, 1801), to the citizen of Audiffret, in Sables in Vendée (2 p. in-4, address). Letter written from prison, where he waits for the First Consul to give him back his freedom: "If I get out of the tower where I have been cloistered for 23 months [...] it will be my 53rd month of captivity, uninterrupted, which will be finished"... L.A.S., Vesoul October 18, 1808, to FONTANES (1 p. in-4). Letter in verse and prose: " Augustus is on the throne: where is his Maecenas?
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