Théophile MANDAR (1759-1823) ardent leader of the Revolution - Lot 80

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Théophile MANDAR (1759-1823) ardent leader of the Revolution - Lot 80
Théophile MANDAR (1759-1823) ardent leader of the Revolutionary Days, Commissioner of the Executive Council, literary scholar. MANUSCRIT with autograph corrections, First period and 1791. 2nd period; 2 sewn notebooks of 14 and 23 pages in-4. Curious recollections of two revolutionary episodes, which appear to be unpublished. First period. Relation of an episode of May 12, 1790: during a meeting of a patriotic society, a fanatical priest, J. Roux, had proposed the creation of a register in which traitors would be denounced, and citizens friendly to the Constitution appointed to do justice, Mandar improvised a flamboyant speech mixing references to Antiquity, Genesis and modern history, to denounce the call for a new St. Bartholomew's Day: "Ah! what would be the elements of happiness for a State, if the citizens of this State were to call upon crime to the aid of the Fatherland; and if it were laid down in principle that murder, that arson, that assassination should be ranked among the weapons intended to protect citizens!", etc. 1791. 2nd period. After the National Assembly abolished the "charity workshops" employing 22,000 men on June 29, 1791, Mandar agreed to chair a delegation of workers who went to see Mayor BAILLY on July 1, with a view to obtaining assistance from the department's Directoire. The next day, a petition was drafted and presented to citoyen Lameth, president of the Assemblée Nationale, and that same evening, before some thirty members of the committees concerned, Mandar delivered a vigorous speech: "Rather than succumb to the rage of hunger, twenty-two thousand men would become all-powerful; fear, Messieurs, that hunger and misery will finally become the leaven of insurrection, the consequences of which it will be impossible for you to stop or prevent"... Mandar summarizes the debates with La Rochefoucauld and Bailly, and his counter-attack: in the face of the threat to use armed force against the workers, he would rally all the people to him and invest the National Assembly: "the army itself will make way for the procession of hunger"! The story ends with a triumph: on July 3, the Assembly proclaimed new relief, jobs and assistance in returning home for the unemployed not yet domiciled in Paris as of July 14, 1789. Mandar added in his own handwriting: "Ma harangue détermina une dépense, très sage, de 300,000F"...
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