220 - REVOLUTION. 1791. CLUB DES CORDELIERS DE PARIS or the - Lot 220

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220 - REVOLUTION. 1791. CLUB DES CORDELIERS DE PARIS or the - Lot 220
220 - REVOLUTION. 1791. CLUB DES CORDELIERS DE PARIS or the Society of the Friends of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. Letter signed to the Free Citizens and Friends of the Constitution of POITIERS. October 18, 1791. 1p (35,5 x 24). "Brothers and Friends. We received with pleasure, your printed letter of the 4th of this month which is found after what you call the act or rather the monument which you raise to the glory of our Benefactors. We like to see you, as we do, paying the true Fathers of the Fatherland the homage that every good Citizen, every venerable friend of the People, owes them. But, allow us to tell you, public opinion has long since pronounced on the men whose names you recall. The Club des Cordeliers, which has been able to free itself from the reproduction of old errors, and to shake off all prejudices, is careful not to deify so suddenly. It maintains that it is by lavishing the name of Great, that one withers it. That of a ROBESPIERRE, of a PÉTION, of a GRÉGOIRE, must seize the admiration, even the veneration, the soul of any good Frenchman, and light in his heart the sacred fire of the love of the Man and the Country. But among the others that you recall, several cannot be placed on the same line, and the rest do not deserve the honors of a quotation. Let us be stingy with the apotheosis. To deserve it, one needs rare virtues, well above the mediocre; let us count for something the sweetness and the Peace enjoyed by the soul of a Citizen who has done some good. It is his first reward. But he owed it to his brothers; and not all can say to themselves, I did as much good as I had to and could. We are with the most sincere brotherhood. E.J.B. MAILLARD President."
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