Charles-Joseph, baron de BACHMANN (1733-1792) Major general - Lot 126

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Charles-Joseph, baron de BACHMANN (1733-1792) Major general - Lot 126
Charles-Joseph, baron de BACHMANN (1733-1792) Major general of the Swiss guards in the service of France, which he led during the day of August 10, he was guillotined. P.A., [February 1791]; 1 1/2 pages in-4. On a project to reform the Swiss regiments. Copy by Bachmann of a letter from Jacques-André Lullin, marquis de Chateauvieux (1728-1816), colonel of the Swiss regiment of Chateauvieux which had revolted in Nancy in August 1790: "Copy of a letter from M. de Chateauvieux to someone of his regiment that this someone sends to M. de Parthes captain in Chateauvieux, it seems to have been written in February 1791. And Parthes sent it to someone who then passed it on to my brother from whom I have it. Lullin is worried about a noise about "some obstacles and attempts made afterwards in Switzerland and nomemant in Basle by our compatriots who failed here to operate if they could the request that the companies of my regiment were dispersed in others and replaced under another colonel by companies all of the small cantons which would form a regiment of model for the others with a quite new constitution. I have worked against it with success in this country and I hope that our Mrs. and their friends as well as mine will drive out this novelty, preferring to remain united and to repair all together and by the same means ready to be obtained, and that we ourselves I believe will find sufficient having only one same service to do proportionate to our strength, to see ourselves all dispersed and perhaps mediocrely well received in the various regiments which would have been intended to receive our isolated companies with new colonels well deserving without doubt, but not surely as tenderly attached to them to please them and to their happiness and to the zealous care as I am"...We join a L.A.S., Paris June 15, 1782 (1 p. in-8), to Lahitte, to give to his master tailor fabrics to make "a uniform frac".
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