Jean Baptiste Carrier | Document signed, with a group of other French Revolutionary documents, 1790s

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