Joseph-Romain JOLY de Saint-Claude (1715-1805) religious cap - Lot 585

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Joseph-Romain JOLY de Saint-Claude (1715-1805) religious cap - Lot 585
Joseph-Romain JOLY de Saint-Claude (1715-1805) religious capuchin, librarian and writer, great opponent of the Philosophes. autograph manuscript, Lettres impartiales sur la révolution françoise avec des poesies qui s'y rapportent " par un academicien des arcades et autres sociétés litteraires ", [vers 1800?]; notebook of 84 pages in-4, very filled. Very interesting unpublished manuscript, where the main actors of the Revolution are judged, and the great events commented in a very critical way. The warning is very revealing: "His attachment [of the author] to the good principles and to the Roman Catholic Religion gave him so much temper against the Jacobins of the assembly that he could never resolve to hear them once. [...] there is no blasphemy so untenable, no project so unjust, no enterprise so atrocious, and no extravagance so monstrous, that did not occur there, and did not have approvers. The galleries were lined with people who had been warned [...] and the horde of sans-culottes, who roamed the terrace of the feuillants, shouted hooting and cheering, according to the agreed signals, which were displayed on one of the windows of the hall or the entrance door. It is well known that everything that took place in this famous Areopagus was the result of cabal and violence, and that freedom was as foreign to it as to the deliberations of the great lord or the Sophi of Persia. However a good Christian owes his submission to the Republic". A table is drawn up at the end of the notebook, listing fifteen letters, with which alternate poems: five odes, a poem La revolution (in free verse, and its continuation, "epitre en grands vers"), an "epitre à ma chère nièce Hiacinte Joly", LeTombeau de Jean-Jacques Rousseau; Joly also pinned his Projet d'un établissement pour les malfaiteurs, presented to the Assemblée Nationale (imp. de Guillot, 8 p.).
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