Charles Victor GENISSIEU (1749-1804) conventionnel (Isère), - Lot 534

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Charles Victor GENISSIEU (1749-1804) conventionnel (Isère), - Lot 534
Charles Victor GENISSIEU (1749-1804) conventionnel (Isère), minister. P.S., Paris 5 ventôse IV (February 24, 1796), to the public prosecutor of the Criminal Court of Doubs; 2 pages in-4, vignette, headed The Minister of Justice. On the refractory clergy. He has been informed "that disruptive priests are waving the torches of fanaticism and civil war in the mountains of the department of Doubs; that several of them have denounced you by name; that the ex-priest of Desservilliers called Bourges, had been arrested, and that he was deposited at the castle of Joux. [...] The disruptive priests that the laws of 1792 and 17932 had struck with the penalty of deportation or imprisonment, are to the Republic what a gangrenous limb is to a robust man: it is necessary to hasten to cut it off, lest the corruption spread. He asks for two years of reclusion for the civil servant Bourges...
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