Pierre-Gaspard CHAUMETTE (1763-1794) Prosecutor of the Commu - Lot 142

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Pierre-Gaspard CHAUMETTE (1763-1794) Prosecutor of the Commu - Lot 142
Pierre-Gaspard CHAUMETTE (1763-1794) Prosecutor of the Commune of Paris, creator of the Fêtes de la Raison, arrested and guillotined with the Hébertistes. 2 L.A.S., Paris August 7, 1791 and n.d.; 2 pages and a quarter in-4 with address, and 2 pages in-4. August 7, 1791, to his friend Thomas. His days and nights are devoted to politics. He makes for his friend the outline of a speech on the civil constitution of the clergy: "France has not demolished her church, she has repolished its stones, she has brought it back to its origin and to the patriarchal simplicity. The oath decreed by the National Assembly was like the sieve which separates the chaff from the good grain, those who did not submit to it have revealed a miserly and perfidious heart, they have shown that they were unworthy of their mission"... Chaumette warns his friend against theology, "this insignificant jumble", and advises him to read Locke, Rousseau, Voltaire, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: "This is what will form your heart and mind"... He opened a letter that was not addressed to him. He opened a letter that was not addressed to him: "It seems, Sir, that the mayor speaks to you about me. I wrote to him immediately after my meeting with Mr. SONTHONAX. He had assured me that I would be appointed secretary of the Commission. [...] How wrong Mr. Sonthonax makes me! Far from warning me that another secretary was on the way, he kept it from me, exposing me to go and talk to you about it and consequently giving me the appearance of a supplanter. [...] It seems that in this cursed affair of the colonies everything comes together to offend me. A commission is going to be "chosen by the warmest supporters of liberty [...] I wish you success as certain as your intentions are pure. Ah, may you have the art of making yourself heard by the blacks; but the means? May you be surrounded only by white men. Ah fear especially the proud colonists"... He signs "Anaxagoras Chaumette" [he changed his first name from Pierre-Gaspard to Anaxagoras, "saint who was hanged for his republicanism"].
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