LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE EN DIRECT/ Rare first-hand account: - Lot 310

LA REVOLUTION FRANCAISE EN DIRECT/ Rare first-hand account: autograph letter signed byCitoyen DUPON, writing from Paris on July 2, 1792, to his friendCitoyenJean-Baptiste BonnetinMiramont (Lot & Garonne), 4 p small in-4 - The two friends are compatriots and both merchants, mainly in wines and spirits, they are in business, Bonnet buys wines in Bordeaux and delivers them to Dupon, they communicate throughPierre Boussion, a surgeon from Lauzun (near Miramont) and member of the Assemblée Nationale (later elected to the Convention Nationale), who is a partner in their business [Transcription in modern spelling for ease of understanding]: After discussing their affairs, he turns to current events, "I mentioned in my last [letter] the events of June 20. A host of addresses have already reached the National Assembly, some approving of the people, others calling for them to be punished. The Paris department wants to put the municipality on trial, but the mayor and the public prosecutor of the commune make fun of them. Finally, the schemer La Fayette left his army, or the one he commanded as it did not belong to him, to bring a petition to the Assemblée Nationale on June 28, stating that he had come in the name of all the good people of the Kingdom to ask for the punishment of the instigators of the June 20 disturbance, while it was his Etat-Major and the Court who had requested it. He was the founder of the Friends of the Constitution, today he wants the societies to be destroyed, judge his character. If the Assembly had had more energy when he spouted all his galimatias at the bar, it would have had him taken to Orleans, it's a justice it owed to the Nation, the Nation would be purged of a vampire who will always torment it, by his intrigue and ambition - On the night of the 24th to the 25th, a panic of terror gripped the Court, believing the Faubourgs Saint-Antoine to be on their backs, the Minister of the Interior gave orders for the roll-call to be sounded throughout Paris at 4 a.m..The aristocratic General Staff received unconstitutional orders, which awakened and frightened all honest citizens. Around two thousand Garde-Nationales marched to the château, where they stayed until 11am. The good people of the faubourg were very quiet at work, and His Majesty, to compensate the Guard for being so active, did them the honor of reviewing them. What was this Guard? It was the new aristocracy who never mounted guards, who only took up arms to exterminate the sans-culottes," he said. "The time will come when we'll make them mount their guards in their turn, and there they'll learn about the Equality that must reign between all the French people. Then we'll tell them: it's you, perfidious agents of the Ancien Régime, who want to sacrifice to your tyrannical ambition this portion of the people of the suburbs.Remember and tremble, that it was this same people who laid siege to the Bastille, who put to flight the abominable tyrants who desolate France on July 14th 1789 - the whole of France admired their courage and the whole of Europe was seized with astonishment, cowards and perfidious as you are, if you persist in your villainy we shall call upon the whole of the French people and say to them: Citoyens amis de l'Egalité et de la Liberté, reconnaissez vos droits, soulever vous tout entier comme au 14 juillet 89, pour venir fondre sur ces scélérats qui croyaient que c'est la fortune seule qui donne des sentiments d'homme et de vrai citoyen - Je vous déclare mon ami que le parti aristocratique dominerait dans Paris si les vrais amis de la Liberté ne font pas sentir que cette classe indigente ne veut faire aucun mal, qu'elle en demande autre chose, that this class is the true people, the true citizen always on the lookout and always at odds with the tyrants who seek to oppress it - Let us live in expectation of events, and let us always remain united, let us banish from our ideas all these old prejudices and let us act only for the maintenance of order and public tranquility - These are the sentiments of one who has the pleasure of calling himself your true friend"; And in P.S.: "On July 3, before sealing my letter, I would like to talk to you for a moment about yesterday's news. It has been learned that Mr Luckner has received orders from the Court to withdraw his army towards Lille, abandoning Courtrai, Menin and Jemappes which he had conquered, but far more atrocious news is that the vanguard of this army, on leaving Courtrai, has set fire to the 3 suburbs of this town, I will not allow myself any reflection, I am content to shudder with horror - The municipality of Paris has put h