History in Manuscript: Letters and Documents from a Distinguished Collection
History in Manuscript: Letters and Documents from a Distinguished Collection
Lot Closed
April 13, 01:19 PM GMT
Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Jean Baptiste Carrier
Document signed ("le Réprésentant du peuple / Carrier")
ordering the Municipality of Nantes to have two volunteers removed from the house of Citoyen Chardin, with three lines in autograph, 1 page, 27 November 1793
[with five other items:]
i) Marie Pierre Francastel, autograph letter signed, also signed by Bourbotte, to Carrier and Le Vasseur, reporting on military matters, Angers, 18 Frimaire An. 2 [8 December 1793]
ii) Marie Joseph Lequinion, letter signed, reporting that he has ordered that four or five hundred prisoners at Rochefort are to be shot without trial at the first sign of the enemy
iii) Philippe Antoine Merlin, letter signed, also signed by Cavaignac and Gillet, to their colleagues at La Rochelle, 14 July 1793
iv) Joseph Santerre, letter signed, 2 November 1790
v) a letter by a member of a military commission on the activities of the Sans Culottes in the area of Rennes
together 11 pages, mainly 4to and folio
PROVENANCE:
Christie's, London, 29 June 1995, lot 397