VENDÉE WARS. Decree of the NATIONAL CONVENTION of May 4, 179 - Lot 271

VENDÉE WARS. Decree of the NATIONAL CONVENTION of May 4, 1793, year 2, providing that no charges shall be brought against General WESTERMANN,..." N°822 François-Joseph WESTERMANN, born on 5 September 1751 in MOLSHEIM (Bas-Rhin in Alsace), guillotined on April 1794 in Paris, was a brigadier general of the French Revolution, who remained famous for the atrocities he committed during the Vendée wars. He was appointed Adjutant-General by the Executive Council, whose leader was Danton, who sent him, after the massacres of September, on a secret mission to Dumouriez in the army of the North. He was arrested after Dumouriez's betrayal and came to protest before the Convention and was released on 4 May 1793. Printed in MARSEILLE (13), at Ant.-Hré JOUVE & Comp., Imprimeur de la Nation, du Département..., rue Montée-des-Accoules. Cupboard (39 x 29) State A-.