Jacques-Nicolas BILLAUD-VARENNE (1756-1819) conventionnel (P - Lot 209

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Jacques-Nicolas BILLAUD-VARENNE (1756-1819) conventionnel (P - Lot 209
Jacques-Nicolas BILLAUD-VARENNE (1756-1819) conventionnel (Paris), member of the Comité de Salut public, he was deported. L.A.S., Sainte-Menehould September 16, 1792, to his colleagues; 3 pages and a half in-4, vignette and header Municipality of Paris. Prosecutor of the Commune. Interesting letter on the march of the Republican armies, two days after the retreat from Chalons and two days before Valmy. He tells of the retreat, and of the confusion caused by malicious people who almost routed the army. The soldiers thus have "a stain of infamy to wash in the blood of the enemy. According to all appearances, the three armies of Messrs DUMOURIEZ, KELERMANN and BEURNONVILLE will join tomorrow. Immediately they will march on Chalons, this place not being tenable. There, with imposing forces, we will no longer fear the enemy; and if, to avoid us, he took his direction on the side of Reims; then he would find you in the lead; and falling on his rear he would not escape. [...] Press on with the work of the camp in Paris. Ask loudly for the mass of the troops of the line who are lost in the departments of the south. Hate as much as possible the march of the convoys toward the meeting points of our troops, and you will preserve this calm and this energy which obtained for you the victory in front of the Bastille and the castle of the Tuilleries. The men of the tenth of August will not flee before the Prussians, they are too eager to fight with them...
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