SERVAN DE GERBEY (Joseph) Romans /Drôme 1741 - 1808 - Genera - Lot 328

SERVAN DE GERBEY (Joseph) Romans /Drôme 1741 - 1808 - General, Minister of War in 1792 - Three signed autograph letters written from the Château de ROUSSAN (Bouches-du-Rhône). One dated August 13, 1806 - Long friendly letters to Madame de CORDÖÜE in AURONS (13) 8 pages in-4° + 4 pages in-8° - He cannot intervene on behalf of Mr de LA CANOURGUE. - I have accepted a place in the Corps Législatif for reasons that are important to my peace of mind, but I have not consented to leave my retreat, which will soon be my tomb... You may judge Madame, if with this system of life, I have been able, I have had to preserve some relations with the distributors of what are called 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've earned the reputation of a savage, or, to put it mildly, a Misanthrope... I've been thinking of getting one of my relatives to act for the French of Nantes Master of all the places in the United Rights..." (Excerpt)