Lot n° 96
Estimation :
300 - 300
EUR
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Result
: 300EUR
LETTER to M. MORIN, - Lot 96
LETTER to M. MORIN,
autograph collector.
s.i.n.d. 1 p. (19.5 x 30 cm) with engraved effigy
engraved effigy of Louis-Philippe.
Palloy, aged, lives under the reign of Louis Philippe
whom he admires and declares his desire to serve "until the
grave". His letter is adorned with the portrait
portrait of the king under which he wrote: "Examine
the physiognomy of this wise monarch".
no autographs of St. Just," he replied to Morin.
St. Just: "...unless it was in my detention
detention, having been in the capharnaüm. I have
scrapped a lot of papers, when I think of the
think of the terror that reigned in France,
I shudder. I was arrested under his signature and
and put in prison at the time of this ephemeral
laws were broken. We
trembled to call ourselves patriots and human beings
to the reign of these anthropophagi. I was in
dungeon for three months: I was the one who petitioned
a petition before 9 Thermidor at the bar
of the Assemblée des Députés. It could rightly be said
that the French were being attacked by
tarantula".
A rare and moving letter
from the patriot's last days
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