Pierre-Joseph-Victor, baron de BESENVAL (1722-1794) general - Lot 59

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Pierre-Joseph-Victor, baron de BESENVAL (1722-1794) general - Lot 59
Pierre-Joseph-Victor, baron de BESENVAL (1722-1794) general of the Swiss in the service of France, commander in July 1789 of the troops gathered around Paris.L.A.S., Versailles July 20, 1789, [to the duke of La ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT]; 4 pages in-4. Rare and interesting letter written in the first days of the Revolution, about the supply ofParis. He obtained permission to extend the stay of the Salis-Samade regiment in Pontoise to protect the city and the grain there... "A post that I had set up in Brie, composed of 50 ties, was forced to abandon it by the insurrection of the inhabitants of the place, who, after having sounded the tocsin, went in droves against this troop. Besenval fears "always in these kinds of troubles, the vivacity of some officer, or of some rider, who in spite of the precise orders that I gave could cause bloodshed.For several days the same insurection has manifested itself at a post of 100 hunters that I had at Montléry, and I have just sent an order to this post to fall back on Nauphle, Chevreuse, Houdan and Dreux, where I dispersed the rest of the Regt of the hunters of Lorraine. I did the same for a post that I had in Corbeil of these hunters, where I learned that M. de LA FAIETTE had stolen a detachment of the bourgeois militia of Paris. I can only applaud the fact that the posts around and near the city were guarded by his bourgeois militia [...] I learned with satisfaction that M. de la Faiette had had the Pecq, Chatou, and Poissi occupied, nothing was so important to ensure the subsistence of Paris [....] One may be unaware of a very interesting thing, of which the love I have for the public good obliges me to inform you, it is that M. NEKER made a proposal some time ago to bring grains from Marseilles by land"... Besenval exposes the measures to be taken to escort these convoys...Former collection André Saudemont (15-16 March 1983, n° 367).
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