VENDÉE WAR " Extract from the registers of the Commune of ST - Lot 354

VENDÉE WAR " Extract from the registers of the Commune of ST HILAIRE DE RIEZ, seante à CROIX DE VIE " Copy of "Procès-verbal de la déposition faite le 14 Septembre 1793 aux greffes de la Municipalité de ST HILAIRE DE RYE (Riez) par le citoyen Jean MARCETEAU, domicilié de CROIX DE VIE... left with his wife to fetch his aunt "to save her and her family from the fury of the insurgents, and that on his arrival the said Vve MICHAUD told him.... that they were no safer on either side, that she knew, moreover, that the garrison of St GILLES was diminishing daily through illness... and that if she had changed her mind, it was citizen JARLET, Secretary of the Municipality, who had urged her to stay at home... Arrest of citoyen JARLET, suspected of aristocracy and uncivilized behavior... it is feared that he will dissuade the other inhabitants of the Commune of ST HILAIRE from joining the patriot army." Lengthy adventures - 4 large folio pages.