Jean-Jacques DUVAL D'EPRÉMESNIL (1745-1794) French jurist, p - Lot 44

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Jean-Jacques DUVAL D'EPRÉMESNIL (1745-1794) French jurist, p - Lot 44
Jean-Jacques DUVAL D'EPRÉMESNIL (1745-1794) French jurist, pamphleteer and politician, deputy of the nobility of Paris, guillotined. L.A.S., July 20, 1790, to a Duke; 2 pages in-4. He sends him a printed copy of the protest against the Decree of the 19th, which they signed for him guessing his intentions, "sure that the danger would make you [...] the Laws of Honor even more dear, if it were possible. We sent this protest to the President, and he sent it back to us. We had his reply and our letter printed after the protest itself," which he intends to file, if he finds a notary brave enough. "This national assembly frightens everyone. It is the fable of the rabbit and the frogs"... He ends by assuring the duke of his faithful attachment and his respect: "Of these two feelings, the first increases in the middle of public storms, and the second, in spite of the decrees. The national assembly will find good that I prefer the old maxims to its fantasies"...
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