Mathieu-Guillaume VILLENAVE (1762-1846) journalist, member o - Lot 57

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Mathieu-Guillaume VILLENAVE (1762-1846) journalist, member o - Lot 57
Mathieu-Guillaume VILLENAVE (1762-1846) journalist, member of the Court of Nantes, defender of the Vendeans, he gathered an enormous collection of autographs, in particular on the Revolution. Autograph manuscript, 1789; 2 pages in-4. Account of his day of July 14, 1789. He left on foot from the rue de Grenelle, arrived at the ferry of the Invalides, then at the gate of Chaillot "without any other meeting than that of two drunkards. He learns from a "concierge that the rabble wanted to burn the house next door, which belonged to the farm, [...] that he was one of the 800 bourgeois summoned to patrol the parish of Ville-l'évêque. These 800 citizens had been given weapons in the city." The day before, leaving shortly before midnight, in a sedan escorted by people on horseback, he saw at the Barrière, burning furniture "lit outside the buildings" and was stopped by "a group of 6 to 7 vagabonds, one of whom was armed with a long pole"; after having answered that they were from the Third Estate and having given them a 6 pound ecu, they were able to continue on their way. "To avoid the Boulevard de la porte S. Martin, we went through Chaillot to the porte de S Denys. There we found a small camp of 8 or 10 small tents, with two sentries of the Regiment of Paris. The gate was guarded by a dozen soldiers. We only met green roundels on our way. We crossed Pantin where everything seemed quiet and we arrived at Rinci at ten o'clock in the morning.
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