[Maurice DUPLAY (1736-1820) carpenter, friend of Robespierre - Lot 530

Lot 530
Go to lot
Estimation :
1000 - 1200 EUR
[Maurice DUPLAY (1736-1820) carpenter, friend of Robespierre - Lot 530
[Maurice DUPLAY (1736-1820) carpenter, friend of Robespierre and his landlord; and Jacques-Maurice DUPLAY his son]. 10 miscellaneous documents, 1795-1797; 52 pages in- 4 or in-fol. Interesting file concerning the Duplay family, and their indictment in the trials of the Revolutionary Court and the Babeuf conspiracy. A true copy of the judgment rendered on 17 Floréal III (6 May 1795) by the Tribunal Révolutionnaire concerning Maurice Duplay, "carpenter before the Revolution, and since then, elector in 1792, Commissioner of the Civil and Revolutionary Committees of the Section des Piques, ex juror at the Tribunal Révolutionnaire, until 9 Thermidor" [trial of Fouquier-Tinville and of the jurors of the Tribunal Révolutionnaire: Duplay is not recognized as an accomplice to the crimes committed then, he is acquitted and the President of the Tribunal asks for his release. But the text of the judgment is a long and implacable indictment against the regime of the Terror]. 8 documents concerning the Babeuf trial, 1796-1797: Copy of the documents of the proceedings against Maurice Duplay and Jacques Maurice Duplay fils, accused of conspiracy against the internal and external security of the Republic. It cites 13 documents: "Arrêté du Directoire Exécutif contre Duplay père"; "Arrêté du Directoire Exécutif contre Duplay fills"; "Procès-verbal d'opposition des scellés chez Duplay père et fils"; "Interrogatoire de Maurice Duplay père"; "Interrogatoire deJacques Maurice Duplay fils"; "Warrant of arrest against Jacques Maurice Duplay fils"; "Warrant of arrest against Maurice Duplay père"; "Petition of the principal tenant of the house of the conception"; "Order of the Director of the indictment jury"; "Minutes of the unsealing of the house of Duplay père", etc.Copy of the Interrogations undergone by Maurice Duplay, before the Indictment Jury of Paris and the High Court of Justice... Copy of the Interrogations of Jacques Maurice Duplay, before the Indictment Jury of Parris and the High Court of Justice... List of the Witnesses summoned at the request of the national accusers and who will be produced at the time of the debates... Extract of the register of imprisonment for Maurice and for Jacques Maurice Duplay (June 1796)... Order of the President of the High Court of Justice sitting in Vendôme, 7 prairial V (May 26, 1797), acquitting Maurice Duplay and answering the questions on the conspiracy... Handwritten memorandum of Jacques-Maurice Duplay, retracing his life and his career, "Testimony of my conscience" by which he justifies and supports completely his father. He comes back at length on the denunciations of which his father and himself were victims during the Revolution; on the little presence of his father at the Revolutionary Court; on the Babeuf affair, etc. We enclose a P.S. from J.M. Duplay, 1st Vendemiare XI for the foundation of a periodical, L'Indiscret, co-signed by B. Rousseau and Ch. J. Lafolie; the Feuille de route of J.M. Duplay with his service record as a hunter in the 5th Company, Strasbourg 10 floréal VII; "Letter from M. de Laleu struck off the roll for having approved by a consultation the Memorandum of Mr. Dupaty in favor of three men condemned to the Wheel", March 1786; plus 2 acts on vellum.
My orders
Sale information
Sales conditions
Return to catalogue