Louis-Marie, viscount de NOAILLES (1756-1804) deputy to the - Lot 61

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Louis-Marie, viscount de NOAILLES (1756-1804) deputy to the - Lot 61
Louis-Marie, viscount de NOAILLES (1756-1804) deputy to the Estates-General, one of the promoters of the night of August 4, general, he died in the expedition of Saint-Domingue. L.A.S., August 25, 1789; half page in-4. [After having abolished on August 4 feudal rights and privileges, and on August 19 noble titles and liveries, Noailles is preoccupied with the hostility of the Stranger and the means of defense] ... "In the moment of crisis in which we are, it is necessary to know how to take one's side; there is no force in the Ministry and no means of action or of execution that the National Assembly can employ. The people have made the revolution, the people want to enjoy it, and we have only to offer them a surcharge of taxes. If the National Assembly had not taken the side to which it was determined, all the properties would have been destroyed. Here the people are quiet for some time, it is up to us to act to create a military force and it is also what occupies us "...
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