Marie-Joseph CHÉNIER (1764-1811) writer and politician, conv - Lot 71

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Marie-Joseph CHÉNIER (1764-1811) writer and politician, conv - Lot 71
Marie-Joseph CHÉNIER (1764-1811) writer and politician, conventionnel (Seine-et-Oise). Autograph manuscript signed, October 18, 1789, to the authors of the Journal de Paris; 1 and a half pages in-8. Against censorship. "Free citizens are only responsible before the law, the anonymous one speaks about a legal censorship. This alliance of words is only absurd. I would just as soon speak of legal despotism. Censorship cannot be legal because it is necessarily arbitrary. But one can pass a law that allows censorship. One can also pass a law that authorizes the inquisition. One can also, by a law, place the absolute dictatorship in the hands of a man or a Senate [...] I conceive that royal censors find censorship necessary [...] One knows the word of the abbot Desfontaines: I must live; but one also knows the lightning answer of M. d'Argenson: I do not see the necessity of it ". One attaches a P.A.S. (in-12 cut out): "I attest the same facts and I join my brother to return to the citizen Poulet the justice which he claims and which he deserves"; and a P.S. November 20, 1789, for the supply by the engraver Lefebvre of "the original of his portrait with the drawing of the Blessing of the Arms in fifty copies".
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