Stanislas-Louis-Marie FRÉRON (1754-1802) journalist, convent - Lot 532

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Stanislas-Louis-Marie FRÉRON (1754-1802) journalist, convent - Lot 532
Stanislas-Louis-Marie FRÉRON (1754-1802) journalist, conventionnel (Paris), in charge of missions in the Midi where he distinguished himself by bloody repressions; after Thermidor, he led the reactionary youth and was the lover of Pauline Bonaparte. L.A.S., Montélimar 11 pluviôse IV (January 31, 1796), to Jacques REVERCHON, "his former colleague and friend"; 2 pages in-fol. on his letterhead Fréron, Commissaire du Gouvernement, on mission in the Departemens of Drôme, Vaucluse, Gard, Bouches-du-Rhône, Var, Hautes & Basses-Alpes, small vignette. Important letter concerning his mission in the South of France to extinguish the White Terror. Fréron left at once for Avignon, Bagnols, and La Bégude, where "gatherings were forming on the side of the camp of Jalès"; he gave orders to dissipate them. "This is a vast plan. I have invested almost all the principal communes of the Comtat: I have only been able to bring back about a hundred deserters: I have established military councils everywhere according to the law. The armed deserters take refuge in the inaccessible mountains. They have observation launches; they light fires, and their rifles shine. The various reports agree to bring their number to 800 on the side of Buys, high Comtat, and to 4 thousand in the district of Nyons only. All measures are taken; but seeing the insufficiency of the troops which are in very small number, I cannot surround them; I do not have a thousand men. I address myself to you, my dear colleague, to help me to choke off in its birth, this new Vendée, work of the Bésignan, the Bouvenot, the Charrette L'Estang &c. I would need 500 men of infantry, and 100 men of cavalry: I am tired of addressing myself to Kellerman from whom I have never been able to get anything. If you can send me these forces to Avignon, by sending them down the Rhone, I will be responsible for the salvation of the whole bank of the Rhone, and it will be easy for me to establish garrisons in the Comtat: this is indispensable; for if I am obliged to withdraw the troops from there, the assassinations will begin again with greater fury.A.S. "Freron La Poype" from his sister Jeanne-Thérèse Fréron, Mme Jean-François de La Poype, to Lucile DESMOULINS, Coubertin, September 2, expressing her concern about not having any news from her husband: "inform yourself to Mr. Danton and write to me"...
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