Charles-Constantin de Rothenbourg, prince of HESSE-RHINFELS - Lot 356

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Charles-Constantin de Rothenbourg, prince of HESSE-RHINFELS - Lot 356
Charles-Constantin de Rothenbourg, prince of HESSE-RHINFELS (1752-1821) Prussian general in the service of France, he was deported then expelled following the plot of the infernal machine. L.A.S. " Ton Concitoyen Charles Hesse ", Maison d'arrêt du Luxembourg 1er nivôse II (21 December 1793), to Camille DESMOULINS; 3 pages in-4, address. Beautiful letter written from prison to Camille Desmoulins [noble and foreigner, Charles de Hesse was arrested, despite his revolutionary ardor]. He asks Camille Desmoulins to intervene on his behalf. He claims that he is only a "poor unfortunate [...] without parents, without friends, and without resources [...] I am perhaps the only general of the Republic who has remained faithful to his oath [...] All my goods are sequestered in Germany, and there is a price on my head, and I am posted on the post [...] to make matters worse, I am deprived of Liberty, the only good that remained to me, and for which I sacrificed everything. [...] Faith of a Republican, I have been incorruptible, and invariable [...] Camille Desmoulins, the National Convention has guillotined the perfidious generals, has dismissed the suspicious generals, as a loyal general, and alone perhaps, I ask for my Liberty, a home, and a treatment so as not to starve [....] the immoral hatred of my native country proves my fidelity to France, my adoptive nation, and it cannot and must not reject me from her bosom, for it would be the end of the future and inevitable liberty of Germany "... Former collection Patrice Hennessy (1958, n° 207).
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