Louis MARIBON DE MONTAUT (1754-1842) deputy and conventional - Lot 185

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Louis MARIBON DE MONTAUT (1754-1842) deputy and conventional - Lot 185
Louis MARIBON DE MONTAUT (1754-1842) deputy and conventional (Gers). P.A.S. and L.A.S. of dispatch to the "Citizens Representatives of the people, members of the Committee of Legislation, and General Safety", citadel of Besançon 18 messidor III (July 6, 1795); 9 and a half pages in-fol. and 1 and a half page in-fol. Reply to the accusations that provoked his arrest. It is time "that you search in this tenebrous labyrinth where one tries to precipitate me by false suppositions, and calumnious denunciations; [...] detained in the secret, deprived of any resource, and unaware of all that can be inculcated to me, how can I defend myself; of the poisoned strokes that enemies throw to me in the shade"... His enemies are those of the Republic... He sends here the continuation of his "first defense": "I am accused (and my decree of arrest was pronounced immediately after this accusation) of having denounced my mother, my sister, and several other persons of my department. First of all it is false that I ever denounced my mother [...a virtuous mother, a respectable mother, 73 years old, a mother who has been crippled by the disease for more than four years, and who never leaves her bed, who has fed me with her milk, who has raised me, whom I love and respect almost to the point of adoration, I denounce her, I appeal to all children, I appeal even to the modesty of those who have slightly thought such an absurdity... In the very interest of his "tenderly loved" sister, he intervened to cut off all communication between her and her husband, who had emigrated, and he also had six or seven people in the department watched whose brothers, brothers-in-law or sons had refused to take the oath of fidelity and had emigrated. But he did not denounce anyone: "if I had been a supporter of terrorism, if I had been an ally of Robespierre and a friend of his atrocious system, I would have behaved much differently; but no, I have always believed, and I still believe, that it is necessary to watch, contain and prevent crime, and not to make blood flow"...
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