[Jacques-René HÉBERT (1755-1794) the violent pamphleteer of - Lot 226

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[Jacques-René HÉBERT (1755-1794) the violent pamphleteer of - Lot 226
[Jacques-René HÉBERT (1755-1794) the violent pamphleteer of Father Duchêne, substitute for the prosecutor of the Paris Commune, arrested with his supporters and guillotined]. P.A.S. by Claude COULOMBEAU, "secrétaire greffier par interim," Paris October 21, 1792; 3 pages in-fol. with vignette and letterhead of the Paris Commune. Hébert defends himself from any participation in the September massacres; he blames the provisional Executive Council, presided over by Danton. Hébert, "Provisional Deputy Prosecutor for the Prosecutor of the Commune [Chaumette]", explains "that he went to the prisons of the Conciergerie to ascertain the nature of the crime of the forty-six people taken under the title of emigrants and as such constituted prisoners, and that he recognized by their answers that the major part of them had not been arrested with arms in their hands"; the arrest reports were not attached to the dispatch of these men, sent to Paris "in defiance of the decree which states that those emigrants who are caught with their arms in their hands will be judged within twenty-four hours [......] and condemned to the death penalty, he could not conceal the fact that their only purpose in bringing them to the capital was to arm the citizens against each other and to make the General Council of the Commune, the men of August 10, bear the brunt of the confusion into which the people would be led, and to make them responsible for ......] of a bloodshed that one strives to arouse by perfidious agitators by deceiving the just indignation of the people and by engaging them to go to the prisons"... Etc.
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