SERVAN DE GERBEY (Joseph) Romans /Drôme 1741 - 1808 - Genera - Lot 268

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SERVAN DE GERBEY (Joseph) Romans /Drôme 1741 - 1808 - Genera - Lot 268
SERVAN DE GERBEY (Joseph) Romans /Drôme 1741 - 1808 - General, Minister of the War in 1792 - Three autographed letters signed written of the Castle of ROUSSAN (Bouches-du-Rhône). A date August 13, 1806 - Long friendly letters to Mrs. de CORDÖÜE in AURONS (13) 8 pages in-4° + 4 pages in-8° - He cannot intervene for Mr. de LA CANOURGUE. - I accepted by reasons which held with my rest a place in the Legislative body, but I did not agree to leave my retirement which will be soon my tomb... Judged Madam, if with this system of life, I could, I had to preserve some relations with the distributors of what one calls the Graces. I have pushed my isolation from everything that goes on around me to the point of forbidding myself to deliver any public paper; and my greatest care is to leave a large space between the world and myself. I have earned the reputation of a savage, or, if one wishes to mitigate the matter, of a Misanthrope... I thought of having one of my relatives act as a Frenchman from Nantes Master of all the places in the United Rights..." (Excerpt)
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