François-Antoine BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826) Conventional (A - Lot 580

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François-Antoine BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826) Conventional (A - Lot 580
François-Antoine BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826) Conventional (Ardèche) and politician. Autograph manuscripts (fragments); 26 pages in-fol. (some marginal notes and decipherments in pencil). Notes and recollections on the Revolution for his memoirs. Fragment of a speech to the Representatives of the People, marking the third anniversary of the "memorable" (and insurrectionary) 1st of Prairial 1795... "Memento" about an exchange between BONALD and Mme de STAËL, before 1789, about the resistance of the Spaniards to the benefits of the Revolution: "But 1° it was not the benefits of the revolution that the French brought to them, it was those of the enslavement and the slavery, 2° the revolution does not offer benefits it can offer happy results, that it is necessary to maintain when one has some, and not to seek, 3° the oposition of the Spaniards was divided by a very ardent love of the fatherland "... Fragment (p. 2 to 6) on the National Legislative Assembly elected after the promulgation of the Constitution of 1791: "none of its members could be part of the Assembly which was going to succeed to him: it had believed to be generous and it was only imprudent and irreflecting; it thus abandoned to the hazard, the destinies of France by letting burn the fire which even had ignited without anything to arrange to extinguish it [...]. The Legislative Assembly was what it could not fail to be, the principle of a new revolution. It did not only continue that which had upset France, it wanted to start another one. It was factious instead of constitutional; divided instead of being united, it wanted to overthrow instead of maintaining [...]; its first attack was directed against the royalty which was the keystone of the constitutional edifice"... Fragment (p. 5) on the situation of France with regard to foreigners, in 1792: it "made that of the King even more delicate and more dangerous for him: their armies threatened our territory and a feeling of dignity which was exalting more and more was going to make the national war; it was difficult that one did not persuade the people that the cause of the King was bound to that of his enemies, who did not fail to proclaim it in their imprudent manifestos and then the successes as the reverses could also bring a catastrophe"... Analysis of the influences on the King: "Alas I would not dare to affirm that the false friends of LOUIS XVI, would not have thrown in the rightly ulcerated heart of this unhappy prince, preventions as fatal as unjust against M. de MALESHERBES himself; had they not taken advantage of one of those moments, when the soul, overwhelmed under the weight of the calamities it experiences, lets itself be carried beyond the very limits of fairness, to recognize the causes and distinguish the authors, and had they not persuaded the King that it was to the principles of wisdom and fairness so constantly protested by the most severe of his subjects, that France owed its changes and the monarch its misfortune; would not have thus caused this distance and perhaps this coldness which deprived the nation and the monarch in the critical circumstances or met each other of the wise councils which a man as enlightened as disinterested, as pure, as important as skilful, as far from the false views which the spirit of party suggests, could have made hear "... Besides, it is easy to insinuate false prejudices to kings, "especially in times of misfortune. Had not Louis XIV been persuaded, even in his omnipotence, that the wise and immortal Fenelon was only a chimerical hope [...] These preventions were maintained by ambitious courtiers "... Etc. He also speaks about MIRABEAU; about the Civil Code which must regulate the agreement "between the domestic institutions and the social institutions, between the principles of morals and those of the government"; etc. A handwritten fragment with autogr. additions is attached. (3 p.).
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