Bertrand BARÈRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) conventionnel (Hautes - Lot 506

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Bertrand BARÈRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) conventionnel (Hautes - Lot 506
Bertrand BARÈRE DE VIEUZAC (1755-1841) conventionnel (Hautes-Pyrénées). Autograph manuscript, Eloge de J. Bte Féraud representant du peuple, assassiné à Paris dans le Temple des loix et mort pour la patrie le 1er prairial an 3, [prison de Saintes juin 1795]; 8 pages in-4. Vibrant homage to the conventionnel Féraud, killed on the 1st prairial, and whose head was carried at the end of a pike in the Convention. The manuscript bears in exergue Excidat alla dies (words pronounced by the chancellor de L'Hospital when he learned of the Saint-Barthélemy, and by Barère himself when he learned of the crime, during his detention in the castle of the island of Oléron). The eulogy opens with a dedicatory epistle to the father of his "glorious" compatriot from the Hautes-Pyrénées, "martyr of public liberty" and "savior of the national representation". Like the heroic defenders of Sparta at Thermopylae, Feraud, herald of liberty, has the right to the recognition of the Nation, because it is known today that "the troubles of the 1st of Prairial were caused by Pitt's agents, and by the numerous emissaries that the foreign powers hired in Paris"... Barère pays tribute to the young deputy "full of enthusiasm for liberty and hatred for tyranny", animated by a "pure and ardent love for the republic", who, having become administrator of his department, knew how to calm the troubles caused by fanaticism. Sent together to the Convention, they became friends, shared the same wishes, saw with the same joy the proclamation of the Republic, "but we were equally devoted to the assassinations of the 2nd of September which had bloodied the cradle of the republic. Also Feraud often said that the crime of the Septembriseurs would be disastrous if it went unpunished, and that the Paris Commune would constantly compete with the national authority. He was not mistaken. Such was the disastrous origin of these tears of the Convention, sometimes by excesses, sometimes by intrigues, and finally by crimes whose result was unceasingly the debasement and the dissolution of the national representation"... Pillage of stores, "overthrow of properties", corruption of the public morals. "Hidden conspiracies in a famous society had organized the greatest of crimes for the night of May 10, 1793. The national representation had to be massacred and dissolved. A Commune basely jealous of the national power thought of violating it to usurp it"... The manuscript remained unfinished.
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