Jean JAY (1743-1807) Protestant pastor, conventional (Girond - Lot 425

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Jean JAY (1743-1807) Protestant pastor, conventional (Girond - Lot 425
Jean JAY (1743-1807) Protestant pastor, conventional (Gironde). 2 L.A. (signed with an initials),Paris 22 thermidore and 14 fructidor II (August 9 and 31, 1794), to Pierre-Anselme GARRAU, Représentant du Peuple près l'Arméedes Pyrénées Occidentales; 3 and 2 pages in-4, addresses. Interesting letters on the NINE THERMIDOR and the Thermidorian reaction. - Jay first congratulates Garrau on the capture of Fontarabie... "The day of the 9th was well worth the most beautiful representations of the theater and the opera. The unity of time was perfectly observed in this tragedy without fable and without fiction. [...] The deepest and most terrible of conspiracies was exposed, revealed, judged, condemned, in less than 24 hours, as well as the rebellion that seemed to postpone the denouement only to precipitate it. He evokes the tyranny that the "estriumvirs [...] Not content with destroying any point of contact between the patriots, they had reduced them to not daring to look at each other, to fearing their own thoughts"... Only Ruamps had dared to protest against the law of 22 Prairial. "They were forced to remain silent at last and to speak only in silence. This language was heard in the country of the minotaur Couthon, and it was from there that the first encouragements to the insurrection started... The conspirators [...] were masters of everything when they were outlawed. Everything was invaded around the hall. Many assassins had already slipped in. That would have been the end of it if they had rushed their attacks instead of amusing themselves by organizing new hierarchies, and if the Convention had not displayed such fearless courage... - Jay recounts the famous session of 13 fructidor where LECOINTRE launched his denunciations against the former members of the Committees... "The impostures of Lecointre were refuted and confounded... it was demonstrated a thousand times that it was the trial of the revolution that they wanted to make; they often denounced those who were behind the curtain, which was so transparent that they could be seen from head to toe... The aristocratic insolence... is here at its height"... Jay announces the capture of Condé and the explosion of the powder depot on the plain of Grenelle. He adds: "I spent a moment at the Jacobins while withdrawing. Another L.A. from Jay to Garrau, 30 brumaire [IX : 21 nov. 1800 ; 2 p. in-4), violently anti-Bonapartist under metaphors and nicknames used to hide these subversive remarks, is joined. Former collection of Patrice Hennessy.
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