Nicolas-Louis FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHÂTEAU(1750-1828) statesman a - Lot 323

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Nicolas-Louis FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHÂTEAU(1750-1828) statesman a - Lot 323
Nicolas-Louis FRANÇOIS DE NEUFCHÂTEAU(1750-1828) statesman and literary scholar; deputy to the Legislative, minister of the Interior, he was one of the Directors, and became under the Empire senator and count. L.A.S., September 28, 1793, to Citizen Panis; 1 page in-4. "François (de Neufchâteau), ill and under arrest, refutes the accusation that he refused to "read to the bar of the National Convention an address by which the Department of Vôges congratulated it on its work. This absurd accusation is completely destroyed in the letter that I write on this point to the Committee". For it is indeed him on the contrary who "engaged the Department to explain itself, and that I saved him a disgrace, by advising him to recast a first address, which was badly turned, inconvenient and which would not have succeeded. I'm a bit picky in terms of writing, but that's no crime. When you present something to the National Assembly, you must try to speak to it in a language worthy of it. I thus believe that the new accusation that one directs against me, is a new proof of my patriotism ". He joined to this letter a copy of a fable that he composed last August during a night of guard at the Assembly: "I intend to make a collection of fables of this kind, for the instruction of our small republicans"...
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