Jules MICHELET (1798-1874) writer and historian. L.A.S., Nan - Lot 660

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Jules MICHELET (1798-1874) writer and historian. L.A.S., Nan - Lot 660
Jules MICHELET (1798-1874) writer and historian. L.A.S., Nantes May 22, 1853; 3 pages in-8. About his research on the cemeteries of Paris and surroundings for his Histoire de la Révolution. He thanks his learned correspondent: "Your information is luminous, decisive, I cannot thank you enough. I thought I saw in your notes on Clamart that it was not used for the burial of the tortured - however, it is for this reason that it received Mirabeau, whom they wanted to destroy in 1794. Lamartine affirms that Madame Roland was buried there. "It is generally believed that the dead of September 2 were buried in the Tombe-issoire or in the catacombs - However, M. Ferrer, the professor of anatomy, told me that when they dug in Clamart [...] they found the skeletons of the priests killed in the Carmes, still in their cassocks, perfectly preserved. Everything that relates to the cemetery at the Madeleine where the king and the Girondins were buried is very important. Would you know the time when they began to bury the tortured there? He asks to excuse his insatiable curiosity: " your invaluable deposit is lll the only source where I can address myself for these clarifications. I distrust infinitely all that one printed, especially for the cemetery of the Madeleine "....
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