Joseph de BARRUEL-BEAUVERT (1756-1817) ardent royalist, one - Lot 228

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Joseph de BARRUEL-BEAUVERT (1756-1817) ardent royalist, one - Lot 228
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 state" (1 page in-4). Describes "the extreme misfortune into which the revolution has plunged him", with his wife and children. 3 L.A.S., ventôseXI (February 22, 1803), June 20 and October 25, 1808, to FONTANES (6 p. in-4). In 1803, he recounts his captivity of "five years, of which 31 months were spent in the Temple tower", and assures him of his "very sincere renunciation of the political principles I have so perfectly expounded", his "attachment to the present state of affairs", and his gratitude to the head of the government who freed him. He then called for amnesty, after having "consumed half 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from his work Actes des Philosophes et des Républicains (printed in 1807 but not commercially available) and his unpublished book sur les Républiques anciennes et modernes, in which he draws interesting parallels between the Ancients and the principal figures of the Revolution, and celebrates the glory and genius of Napoleon. P.A.S., Paris February 2, 1816 (half-p. in-4, red seal with arms): attestation of the services of Chevalier de GIRARD-DE-CHÂTEAUVIEUX in the Royal Army of Brittany. 9785/977
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