Auguste DANICAN (1764-1848) general, he fought in the wester - Lot 424

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Auguste DANICAN (1764-1848) general, he fought in the wester - Lot 424
Auguste DANICAN (1764-1848) general, he fought in the western wars; after his resignation, he commanded the royalist sections of 13 Vendémiaire; condemned to death, he went into exile. L.A.S., Port Malo 20 thermidor II (August 7, 1794), to his friend the conventionalist Stanislas FRÉRON; 2 pages in-4 (wetnesses with small lacks and repairs). On his war in the Vendée and the fall of Robespierre: "the solid and true Patriots breathe, your warmth and your energy did not surprise me, you are one of those to whom the Republic will owe much. I have just written to Dubois-Crancé who employed me in the embrigadement and who has friendship for me. I ask him to make me change army. [...] In waging war against the brigands of the Vendée (who would have been destroyed if it weren't for protected ignorance and intrigue) I had a horse killed under me, and a shot fired, I supported the siege of Angers and repulsed 80,000 men with 5,000 at most. [...] I have therefore done my share of this infernal war and it is right that, like others, I see the Prussians and the Austrians, my little talent consists in the service on horseback ". He asks Fréron to intervene at the Committee of Public Safety so that he is sent "to the Rhine, to the Moselle, on the Meuse, to the Devil finally, who can take me and bring me back victorious". He evokes the departure of the "frank and loyal Dubois-Crancéé" who opposed Robespierre: "If his infamous enemies had succeeded, it was a great loss for the Republic"...
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