Edmond-Louis DUBOIS-CRANCÉ (1747-1814) Conventional (Ardenne - Lot 271

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Edmond-Louis DUBOIS-CRANCÉ (1747-1814) Conventional (Ardenne - Lot 271
Edmond-Louis DUBOIS-CRANCÉ (1747-1814) Conventional (Ardennes).autograph manuscript signed, Plan de conduite à tenir par le Comité de Salut Public pour arriver aux moyens d'assurer la prospérité de la République Française et ses succès contre ses ennemis dans la campagne de 1793 (Plan of conduct to be held by the Committee of Public Safety to arrive at the means of ensuring the prosperity of the French Republic and its successes against its enemies in the campaign of 1793); 8 pages in-fol., half-red calf binding (engraved portrait enclosed). Remarkable study on the revolutionary conquests by Dubois-Crancé, former musketeer of the King, who distinguished himself during the Revolution by a clever reorganization of the Army and the Finances... First of all, he exposes the military situation of France: "In the North and in the East, Belgium and Holland are conquered and the Rhine serves us as a barrier. From the North Sea to the Rhine, only Luxembourg and Mainz remain in the hands of the enemies... Up to the lake of Geneva the borders are guaranteed by the Swiss neutrality, "and I do not see why we should not take 30 thousand Swiss in the pay of France, which would consolidate our connections and decrease the resources of our enemies." All along the Alps to the Mediterranean "we are at war with the King of Sardinia; we have taken from him all of Savoy, the County of Nice," and the army is advancing toward Piedmont, passing through all the passes, and strengthening itself considerably toward Toulon to enter Italy. "In the Pyrenees, we have an army in Catalonia and another in Biscay, both victorious", they threaten Pamplona and the port of Roses... "In the West, we have an army in the Vendée that covers the coast from La Rochelle to the Loire. [...] The events of the war have been disastrous in these departments, but the means of the Vendéens are so weakened and those of the Chouans are so miserable that one must hope that this war will be promptly ended. They will have moreover in spring 64 ships of line armed... "We leave a regime which, compressing France on all the points and delivering it to the most ferocious and most shameless vandalism destroyed, at the same time in one year, all its furniture and all its means of reproduction, and threw in society an immense quantity of assignats so debased today"... It is obvious that the Republic cannot continue alone, and it is necessary at all costs that it makes friends, allies: "The times are favorable; everywhere we are victorious and it is not to debase ourselves, it is to honor ourselves, it is to aggrandize ourselves in the eyes of Europe that to make a golden bridge and to give peace to his defeated enemy". The means are simple: "They consist of 1° to draw a reasonable benefit from our conquests in Holland and in the Netherlands and to attach them forever to the interests of France. 2° To make peace with Spain, the King of Sardinia and Prussia at the expense of England and Austria. 3° To unite us by a treaty of alliance with Sweden and Denmark in order to consolidate our relations with North America, in concert with the Turk and Russia. 4° To make a war to death with England and Austria "... Etc.Former collectionAndré-Georges Vasseur (ex-libris).
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