Charles-Constantin de Rothenbourg, prince de HESSE-RHINFELS - Lot 140

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Charles-Constantin de Rothenbourg, prince de HESSE-RHINFELS - Lot 140
Charles-Constantin de Rothenbourg, prince de HESSE-RHINFELS (1752-1821) Prussian general in the service of France, he was deported then expelled following the plot of the infernal machine. L.A.S. "Ton Concitoyen Charles Hesse", Maison d'arrêt du Luxembourg 1er nivôse II (21 décembre 1793), to Camille DESMOULINS; 3 pages in-4, addressed. Beautiful letter written from prison to Camille Desmoulins [noble and foreigner, Charles de Hesse was arrested, despite his revolutionary ardor]. He asks Camille Desmoulins to intervene on his behalf. He claims that he is "a poor unfortunate [...] without parents, without friends, and without resources [...] I am perhaps the only general of the Republic who has remained faithful to his oath [...] All my possessions are sequestered in Germany, and a price has been put on my head, and posted to the stake [...] to make matters worse, I am deprived of Liberty, the only good I had left, and for which I sacrificed everything. [Camille Desmoulins, the National Convention had the perfidious generals guillotined, and dismissed the suspicious generals, as a loyal general, and alone perhaps, I ask for my Liberty, a home, and treatment so as not to die of hunger [....] the immoral hatred of my native country proves my loyalty to France, my adoptive nation, and she cannot and must not reject me from her bosom, for that would be the end of the future and inevitable freedom of Germany"... Former Patrice Hennessy collection (1958, no. 207). ex 9785/500
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