Lot 19
Robespierre (Maximilien François Marie Isidore de), French lawyer, statesman, and leading figure in the Revolution, 1758-1794) Les Representans du Peuple composans le comité de salut public à l'Armée, scribal copy of a triumphant address to the army on Republican victories, signed by Robespierre, '2 Brumaire'. [October, 1793].
Hammer Price: £2,600
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Robespierre (Maximilien François Marie Isidore de), French lawyer, statesman, and leading figure in the Revolution, 1758-1794) Les Representans du Peuple composans le comité de salut public à l'Armée, scribal copy of a triumphant address to the army on Republican victories, 2pp., signed by Robespierre, and also by Lazare Carnot, Herault de Sechelles and Jacques Billaud-Varenne as members of the Comité de Salut public, foxed and lightly browned, folio, dated in another hand '2 Brumaire', [October, 1793].
⁂ '...L'heure fatale des tyrans sonne; et c'est par vos mains qu'ils doivent périr...'. The document commences with an announcement of victory following the Battle of Wattignies (a crucial and hard-fought victory over the Austrian army), and celebrates the defeat of counter-Revolutionary rebellions, and the expulsion of the Spanish and Piedmontese from France, and further urges troops onward to a final victory against tyranny. A copy in Robespierre's hand is recorded in the catalogue of the Chambry collection. It is correctly dated 4 brumaire (25 October), rather than '2 Brumaire' as here.
Description
Robespierre (Maximilien François Marie Isidore de), French lawyer, statesman, and leading figure in the Revolution, 1758-1794) Les Representans du Peuple composans le comité de salut public à l'Armée, scribal copy of a triumphant address to the army on Republican victories, 2pp., signed by Robespierre, and also by Lazare Carnot, Herault de Sechelles and Jacques Billaud-Varenne as members of the Comité de Salut public, foxed and lightly browned, folio, dated in another hand '2 Brumaire', [October, 1793].
⁂ '...L'heure fatale des tyrans sonne; et c'est par vos mains qu'ils doivent périr...'. The document commences with an announcement of victory following the Battle of Wattignies (a crucial and hard-fought victory over the Austrian army), and celebrates the defeat of counter-Revolutionary rebellions, and the expulsion of the Spanish and Piedmontese from France, and further urges troops onward to a final victory against tyranny. A copy in Robespierre's hand is recorded in the catalogue of the Chambry collection. It is correctly dated 4 brumaire (25 October), rather than '2 Brumaire' as here.
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