Théophile Malo Corret de LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE (1743-1800) warr - Lot 215

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Théophile Malo Corret de LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE (1743-1800) warr - Lot 215
Théophile Malo Corret de LA TOUR D'AUVERGNE (1743-1800) warrior and scholar, First Grenadier of the Republic. L.A.S. (minute), Passy 12 nivôse VIII (2 January 1800), to his brother-in-law Limon de Timeur; 2 pages in-4. Returning from the 1799 campaign in Switzerland, he wishes to put his finances in order, especially concerning his income in Brittany (Plouaré): he is paid in paper or his farmers do not pay him: "my income, which in 1992 was still 1600ll, is today reduced to almost nothing. [I would have liked, my dear brother-in-law, to be able to contribute to your wishes and your projects by submitting my own to them. He cannot return to Brittany now: "It is not that in the very precarious state in which my reform treatment reduces me, the stay in the province does not suit me infinitely more than the neighborhood of the capital" but he is well decided to "finish my days there, and nowhere else if providence leaves me master of the choice". He thanks his brother-in-law for his "repeated offers of a pension" and expresses to him all his gratitude. In a postscript, he asks him to thank his friend Le Brigant for his reply [La Tour d'Auvergne replaced the youngest son of Le Brigant as a private in Switzerland; he will return to service in the army of the Rhine and will be killed on June 28, 1800].
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