MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLLE. 1794. "COPY of the Letter written by Je - Lot 310

MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLLE. 1794. "COPY of the Letter written by Jean Baptiste LACOSTE, Representative of the People to the Armies of RHIN and MOSELLE, to Citizens GOBERT, RODOLPHE and POIRET, Agents of the Republic.". Headquarters of MORTEFONTAINE, near LONGWY (54), 21 Floréal Year 2 (10 May 1794) - "Virtue is on the agenda throughout the Republic. The Guillotine purges it of all that is impure. Victory is permanently in the south as well as in the north. The last hour of the Tyrants sounds. Frightened Italy sees the Austrians slaughtered; the Piedmontese captives, frightened, a tyrant on the run and a throne that collapses from Bayonne to Perpignan; the slaves of the tyrant of Castile are prisoners, fugitives or dead... The Armée du Nord won on the 10th, a complete victory... Ménin was kidnapped from the Republic with great force!". (LACOSTE is Conventionnel du CANTAL, on a mission). Printed in METZ, at VERRONNAIS, Imprimeur, Quai et Quartier Saint-Pierre. Cupboard (42 x 34) State A.