Lot n° 245
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Jean-Gabriel PELTIER (1765-1825) counter-revolutionary journ - Lot 245
Jean-Gabriel PELTIER (1765-1825) counter-revolutionary journalist, editor of the Acts of the Apostles, he emigrated after the Ten of August. 6 L.A. (3 signed "P" or initialled), London or Dover 1792-1794, to Charlotte Atkyns, in Wyndham (Norfolk) or in London; 18 pages in-4, most with address.
Interesting correspondence between these two royalist agents, where it is question of the trial of Louis XVI, a mission of Mrs. Atkyns in Paris and the project to save Marie-Antoinette and the children of the Temple. One also meets the names of people associated with the monarchy: Auerweck, agent of George III; Goguelat, former secretary of the Queen; the doctors Le Monnier and Vicq d'Azyr; the lawyer de Sèze, etc.
December 6 [1792]. He prepares letters for Baron d'Auerweck, Goguelat, Dr. Le Monnier and Vicq d'Azyr; then, after having published "one hundred new pages of this lamentable history", he will be able to make the trip north. "I will have with me and lodged at my place at the first day, M. the Duke of Choiseul, the particular friend of the Queen, the same one to whom her majesty had entrusted the portrait of the Dauphin that I had engraved. He would set himself on fire for his masters at last, it is he who had imagined and executed the trip to Varennes "... - Tuesday 11 [December]. The deplorable news made his apartment "an appointment of tears and despair": "you will have read the atrocious speech of Robespierre, the applause which he received from the tribunes, and especially the new pieces of which one makes a crime with this unhappy King, because one does not want to see that all the steps which he made to take again his authority, were calculated on the happiness of his people, and that his only object was to tear off it from the misfortune which gnaws at it since it is deprived of its King. Consequently we expect from one moment to another to learn that an insurrection led by Robespierre and Marat will have delivered the National Convention from the crime of judging him. We hope at least that the hands of the barbarians, will have respected the graces and the innocence of childhood and that the Dauphin [Louis XVII] will survive his virtuous father to console France "... He keeps him informed of a new sympathetic ink...Friday morning [January 25, 1793?] He shares his concerns about Paris, the fate of the Queen, the health of Madame Royale and the "young King". He fears that the communication between France and England will soon be closed, and will hinder his journey: "you would have to cross the whole army of that rascal Dumouriez, that horrible beggar who came to Paris to protect the assassination of the King"... She will have the whole month of February before Pitt declares war (if he decides to do so), but "would you have the strength to contemplate the place Louis 15 without finding yourself ill! "He multiplied the recommendations to thwart suspicions, and indicated where she could find De Sèze. "Mr. Brunyer was staying at the Château des Thuileries until August 10"... - Saturday. From Dover, he indicates his itinerary: Ostend, Brussels, for two days "at headquarters", then back. "I will not fail to see by Ypres and Tournay what there is way and possibility to try to penetrate. Thus I will have fulfilled the duties of your adjutant"... - [After August 7]. "We have just had news of the federation. The Queen survived. But there was a horrible massacre. M. de Gillier has just reported it to M. de Lally. The people on whom the rage fell mainly are bankers, Girondin bourgeois, and administrators"... Last night he saw "the people of the Duke of G's project. They promise only the King & the 2 prisoners of the Temple. They will do what is possible for the Queen; but as everything is changed, they can't answer for anything"... Impossible from now on for a foreigner, especially an Englishman, to reach Paris: "Mr. Pitt has been declared by a decree the enemy of the human race. Thus you have no more means to operate by yourself. If you want to be useful to this family, it will only be by directing the operation from here, instead of going to be guillotined [...]. We have made the calculations of what it will cost, and we have seen that with only 1250 louis, we would have the means to have the 2 children. As for the Queen, nothing can be said yet. One worked only the Temple "... [October 1794?] "You saw yesterday our little devil [the baron of Auerweck]. He is capable alone of making a counter-revolution by the abundance and the fecundity of his resources and his ideas. You will be astonished when you have seen a written report that he prepares for you on what he has done for our affair, and on a kidnapping of the Duke of Orleans that he was carrying out if a letter that he was writing to me had not been intercepted and put to the Committee of Public Safety...
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