Jean-Baptiste CARRIER (1756-guillotiné 1794) conventionnel ( - Lot 427

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Jean-Baptiste CARRIER (1756-guillotiné 1794) conventionnel ( - Lot 427
Jean-Baptiste CARRIER (1756-guillotiné 1794) conventionnel (Cantal), organizer of the massacres of Nantes. L.S. " Le représentant du Peuple françois Carrier ", Paris 17 fructidor II (August 24, 1794), to Brugoux, procureur syndic of Figeac; 3 pages in-fol. Important letter written after the fall of Robespierre, in order to unite the French around the government. "The clear-sighted patriots knew of Robespierre's conspiracy before it broke out; but the means to attack his colossal reputation! They did not want to run the risk of bringing about "the loss of Liberty by strengthening more and more the tyrannical authority of this modern Caligula," and it was necessary "to wait for the favorable circumstance where the conspirator and his accomplices could be denounced with all their crimes to public opinion... [...] Today things have changed face, there is no longer any faction to fear." The Convention has generously freed citizens, but they must respect republican principles: "Let them know well that in the last ten of August, almost all of France has pronounced itself, that it absolutely wants liberty and equality, the one and indivisible republic, that sixteen hundred thousand brave defenders are fighting to defend and consolidate it; that their striking victory over the coalition of despots leaves no hope of a return to the old regime [...Let it not be imagined either that moderatism must take the place of the energy of patriotism [...] If the moderates ever dared to present the slow poison of their maxims, this party would be struck down and annihilated like that of the most dangerous conspirators. It is necessary that all the moderates, shaking off all their principles of consideration and conciliation, frankly embrace the defense of the cause of Liberty and that they support it with the courage of the burning republicans [...] Let all our fellow citizens unite frankly, their union will make their strength. Let all our fellow citizens unite frankly, their union will be their strength; but let the old patriots always preserve their male and energetic attitude, let this opinion be the one that directs the general opinion, let one take good care not to let it be altered, let not leftism or moderatism slow down its vigorous movement. Woe! Woe! especially to the one who would come to disturb this firm harmony"...
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