BRON, employed at the Committee of Legislation of the Conven - Lot 470

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BRON, employed at the Committee of Legislation of the Conven - Lot 470
BRON, employed at the Committee of Legislation of the Convention. 8 L.A. and 1 L.A.S., Paris ventôse-thermidor III (February-August 1795), to his parents; 23 pages in-4, addresses, postmarks (bottom of some letters slightly eaten away without loss of text). Very interesting correspondence on the insurrections of Germinal and Prairial. Bron relates the insurrection of Germinal 12 and the arrest of the condemned deputies: "one was obliged to bring them back twice to the committee of general safety, a portion of the people wanted him to be judged, another one, that is to say, some forcenés fired on those who escorted them in the Champs Elisées"... He gives the price of the principal commodities, wood, linen; the rate of the louis. Ten days before the 1st of July, he feels the excitement rising in Paris: numerous suicides in the Seine, the starving people that two glasses of wine and the heat inflame; in Ivry, the people have looted a convoy of bread; the shortage is frightening; the Parisians are reduced to 2 ounces of bread per day... A detailed and very lively account of the day of the 1st Prairial: "At 9 o'clock in the morning the women of the different suburbs spread out in Paris and make all the other women they meet walk with them [...] to go with them arm in arm to the convention to ask for bread".the Sections arm themselves, take out the cannons: "there were at least three to four hundred thousand men on their feetthe convention was violated two or three times, it declared itself permanent"... Cambon was elected mayor in the City House by "a crowd of scelerat"... "On the night of the 1st to the 2nd, the Convention, which was not very numerous, numbered 100, ROMME went up to the rostrum and asked that all the proposals he was going to make be decreed on the spot; the release of all the patriots incarcerated since the 9th of Thermidor, the reinstallation of all the authorities constituted before the 9th, the recall of Collot, Billaud, Barrere and the detainees to the castle of Ham, all this was decreed on the spot to the applause of the tribunes of the convention which were crowded with men and women of their supporters; LEGENDRE presents himself in costume, he wants to speak, he is booed, he goes out, puts himself at the head of the grenadiers of the butte des moulins, he is repulsed twice, the third time he succeeds in freeing the convention, it is more numerous in members, they deliberate and annul all the decrees that they have just made and order the arrest of all the members who have cooperated in this beautiful work, they are 14 Romme, Albitte ", etc. Bronrelate the massacre of FÉRAUD: "he receives a pistol shot and goes to die in one of the corridors of the convention; there, the people seize him, another brigand cuts off his head and walks it on a pike and then carries it to the president's desk, this rascal was arrested on the spot"; he will be delivered in the evening by the crowd while he was about to be guillotined. There are 100,000 men in Paris looking for the terrorists... Former Patrice Hennessy collection.
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