DIRECTOIRE. - Collection of 42 pieces, including 21 manuscri - Lot 89

DIRECTOIRE. - Collection of 42 pieces, including 21 manuscripts, in one volume, in-8, bradel paper-covered boards, smooth spine, green title page (Binding circa 1800). Important collection of 42 pieces, including 21 manuscripts, occupying some 300 pages. Pieces include: - Speech delivered by Garat on the assassination of the ministers at Rastadt during the session of 16 Floréal Year VII. - Extract from J. Ch. Bailleul's observations on finances and the factions considered to be the cause of the collapse of public credit and the misery of the people. - Necessity of uniting religion with politics, to govern men. - On the election of Sieyès... - Speech delivered by citizen Laforest, schoolteacher in Macon, at the Fête de la Reconnaissance. - Speech delivered by Chénier at the funeral ceremony held at the Champs de Mars on Prairial 20, An VII, in honor of the plenipotentiary ministers murdered by Austria. - Speech delivered in the Temple de Mars by Lucien Bonaparte, Minister of the Interior, on 1 Vendémiaire, An IX, for the Republic Day. Label of the Raymond Clavreuil bookshop. Restored crack to one leaf.