Jean-Gérard LACUÉE (1752-1841) deputy of Lot-et-Garonne to t - Lot 518

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Jean-Gérard LACUÉE (1752-1841) deputy of Lot-et-Garonne to t - Lot 518
Jean-Gérard LACUÉE (1752-1841) deputy of Lot-et-Garonne to the Legislative, general, minister. L.A.S., Paris 21 fructidor III (September 7, 1795), to his dear Saint Amans; 3 pages in-4. Interesting testimony on the explosive situation, one month before the insurrection of Vendémiaire. "There is in Paris such a great influx of foreigners that one cannot find lodging. [...] This influx and that of the assignats make lodgings insanely expensive [...] A pound of bread costs me 16 sols [...] a ripe peach costs 50 sols, a cup of milk 3ll, all in proportion. There is something singular that gold is worth in the agiotant nearly 45 times its nominal value and that in the trade of sale and purchase it has not taken this value much. The sections were formed yesterday in primary assemblies. The general spirit is far from being good. The constitution will nevertheless be accepted, but I doubt that one accepts the law of two thirds". He saw some deputies, among them Lacépède and Paganel. The appointment of the representatives will decide the fate of France: "to choose either absolutely null men, or men who have enough spirit to feel that France exhausted by the evils and the remedies needs more the regime of Fleuri than that of Richelieu, Louvois &c." He was asked to be part of the government: "I know very well that it will not be. Municipal officer in Agen, or at most agent of the commune of Autefage, that is my maximum ambition". In his part, which is "the direction of the armies", he is happy to do "nothing ostensible. This state of obscurity compensates me for my sorrows"...
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