Pierre BOURBOTTE (1763-1795) conventionnel (Yonne), arrested - Lot 487

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Pierre BOURBOTTE (1763-1795) conventionnel (Yonne), arrested - Lot 487
Pierre BOURBOTTE (1763-1795) conventionnel (Yonne), arrested after the days of Prairial, condemned to death, he stabbed himself and was guillotined dying. L.A.S., "from a small village 4 or 5 leagues from Caen" 4 prairial III (23 May 1795), to his friend Dudanjon; 8 pages in-4. A poignant letter in which Bourbotte, on his way to prison, tells the story of that fateful day of the 1st of Prairial. He went to the Convention at eleven o'clock, where he learned about the uprising. "Shortly afterwards, furious women filled our galleries and shouted atrocious imprecations against the convention"; the room was evacuated, but it was again assaulted by a furious troop; Féraud was killed by a rifle shot; Bourbotte managed to hide for three hours, "overwhelmed with heat and fatigue and burning with thirst". After drinking wine at the café, he returned to the room where the deliberations were going well. "It is all these folliculars which by their poisoned sheets misled the public spirit; one should ask for their arrest": he deposits a motion in this direction, and supports his colleague who asks for the abolition of the death penalty, except for "the assassins, the emigrants, the fabricators of false assignats and the provocateurs to the royalism". He is elected member of the extraordinary commission charged to replace the Committee of General Safety. But an armed force broke into the room and attacked his colleague Kervelegan who was wounded; he interfered and received blows; calm returned with "the evacuation of all the seditious and the return of the various members of the committees of government who went up to the tribune only to propose the arrest of all the speakers who had spoken before". Arrested with the others, they were taken "to the château des torreaux", in the sea near Morlaix; he asked his friend to send him a trunk with his belongings, to collect his allowance as a representative of the people, to settle his debts to his laundryman; he entrusted him with his child and would be happy to see him live in his house... Former Alfred Sensier collection (February 11-13, 1878, n° 157).
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