Louis MARIBON DE MONTAUT (1754-1842) deputy and conventionee - Lot 203

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Louis MARIBON DE MONTAUT (1754-1842) deputy and conventionee - Lot 203
Louis MARIBON DE MONTAUT (1754-1842) deputy and conventioneer (Gers). P.A.S. and L.A.S. of dispatch to "Citoyens Représentans du peuple, membres du Comité de Législation, et de Sureté Generalle", Besançon citadel 18 messidor III (July 6, 1795); 9 pages and a half in-fol. and 1 page and a half in-fol. Reply to the accusations that led to his arrest. It's time "that you searched this tenebrous labyrinth in which they try to precipitate me by false suppositions, and slanderous denunciations; [...] detained in secrait, deprived of all resources, and ignorant of everything that can be charged against me, how can I defend myself; from the poisoned dashes that enemies throw at me in the shadows"... His enemies are those of the Republic... He sends here the continuation of his "first defense": "I am accused (and my decree of arrest was pronounced immediately after this accusation) of having denounced my mother, my sister, and several other people in my department. First of all, it is false that I ever denounced my mother [...] a virtuous mother, a respectable mother, 73 years old, a mother who has been crippled with bodily mortis for more than four years, and who has never left her bed, who has nourished me with her milk, who has nursed me, whom I love and respect almost to the point of adoration, I denounce her, I appeal to all children, I even appeal to the modesty of those who have been so light-hearted as to think such nonsense"... In the very interest of his "tenderly loved" sister, he intervened to cut off all communication between her and her husband, who had emigrated, and he also had six or seven people in the department watched, whose brothers, brothers-in-law or sons had refused to take the oath of fidelity and had emigrated. But he did not denounce anyone: "If I had been a supporter of terrorism, if I had been an ally of Robespierre and a friend of his atrocious system, I would have behaved much differently; but no, I have always believed, and still do, that it is necessary to monitor, contain and prevent crime, and not let blood flow"... 9785/877
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