Joseph de BARRUEL-BEAUVERT (1756-1817) ardent... - Lot 225 - Rossini

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Joseph de BARRUEL-BEAUVERT (1756-1817) ardent... - Lot 225 - 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. 4 L.A.S., one P.A.S. and 2 autograph MANUSCRITS, 1803-1816. L.A.S., Paris 20 brumaire XII (November 12, 1803), to "the illustrious sister of the head of the state" (1 page in-4). He describes "the extreme misfortune in which the revolution has plunged him", with his wife and children. 3 L.A.S., 3 ventôseXI (22 February 1803), 20 June and 25 October 1808, to FONTANES (6 p. in-4). In 1803 he tells of his captivity "of five years, of which 31 months were spent in the Temple tower," and assures him of his "renunciation, quite sincere, of the political principles that I have so perfectly expiated," his "attachment to the present state of things," and his gratitude to the head of the government who freed him. He then claimed amnesty, after having "consumed half of the revolution in exile and imprisonment"... In 1808, he applied for a position in public education. 2 autograph MANUSCRITS (7 1/2 pages in-fol.). Excerpts from his work Actes des Philosophes et des Républicains (printed in 1807 but not put on the market) and from his unpublished book on the ancient and modern republics, where he makes interesting parallels between the Ancients and the main characters of the Revolution, and celebrates the glory and the genius of Napoleon. P.A.S., Paris February 2, 1816 (half-p. in-4, red seal with arms): attestation of the services of the Chevalier de GIRARD-DE-CHÂTEAUVIEUX in the Royal Army of Brittany.
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