Charles JEANNE (1800-1837) revolutionary, leader of the barr - Lot 240

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Charles JEANNE (1800-1837) revolutionary, leader of the barr - Lot 240
Charles JEANNE (1800-1837) revolutionary, leader of the barricade of the Saint-Merry cloister during the insurrection of June 1832. L.S., co-signed by 6 fellow prisoners, Clairvaux December 7, 1834, to the editor of La Tribune; 2 1/2 pages in-fol. Very rare letter from prison. Jeanne and her companions of captivity protest of their republican feelings which protect them against the discouragement and the idea of suicide, in spite of the "physical & moral tortures" of which they are the object on behalf of their jailers. They ask for the insertion of the letters that they sent, so that the republicans are informed about their attitude... " We, dreading the cruelties of our jailer!... But we defy him! [...] If we sleep on the slab of our dungeons, if we resign ourselves to drink only water & to eat only the disgusting & insufficient food of the prison, if one of us deprives himself of the visits of his old parents that he could see only through a grid, if we refuse the visit of the doctor while we are sick, [...] it is because we do not want to submit ourselves to formalities unworthy of men of heart"... We joined P.A.S., co-signed by 4 fellow-prisoners, protesting against the price of the paper which one provides them; and a ll.s.of his mother (Clairvaus January 12, 1835).
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