Joseph LE BON (1765-1795) Conventional (Pas-de-Calais), he b - Lot 106

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Joseph LE BON (1765-1795) Conventional (Pas-de-Calais), he b - Lot 106
Joseph LE BON (1765-1795) Conventional (Pas-de-Calais), he brought the Terror to the North and was guillotined in Amiens. L.A.S. "Le Bon prêtre", Verdun November 2, 1790, to the National Assembly; 4 pages in-4. A very curious letter from the future conventionalist, then a destitute priest. ... "I love the revolution and those who made it too much to expose them to slander and the censures of the envious. What would the partisans of the old regime say if they saw a priest reduced to asking for alms? [With what eagerness would they seize this opportunity to rekindle fanaticism in the hearts of the people, by showing them an irreproachable clergyman covered with the most glorious attestations, plunged by your decrees into degradation and opprobrium. [...] I would never have entered holy orders if my bishop, in order to commit me, had not taken it upon himself to give me a title [...] content to have the victum and the vestitum during my novitiate [...] I waited until I was a priest to obtain a place of some kind". Now that "the clergy received a new organization [...] the ecclesiastical jobs are infinitely rare, and the great number of the priests does not choose voluntarily a patriotic vicar". Lebon proposes to the Assembly a project of decree (all drafted) where it would be in charge of assuring to the priests not yet appointed "a pension equal to the salary of a country vicar"... He adds: "If I badly reasoned, I do not have any more but to expiate on the great roads this defect of logic, until arrived at the door of the assembly, I make him see a man deprived of all"... Former collection of Patrice Hennessy. Attached is a L.S. co-signed by 9 other administrators of the dep. of Pas de Calais (including Darthé), Arras February 14, 1793, denouncing false certificates of residence made by emigrants; and a l.a.s. concerning Le Bon by B. ANSART, national agent near the district of Arras, 13 pluviôse II (February 1, 1794).
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