MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel RIQUETTI, Comte de), Député de la S - Lot 220

MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel RIQUETTI, Comte de), Député de la Sénéchaussée d'AIX aux États Généraux, le Grand Orateur de l'Assemblée Constituante. (Bignon (45) 1749 - Paris 1791) - Apostille Signed "MIRABEAU L'Ainé" with autograph corrections on a Circular Address of the SOCIÉTÉ DES AMIS DE LA CONSTITUTION (better known as the Club des Jacobins.) "Approved for printing, MIRABEAU L'AINÉ." - revolutionary text (1790) - 2pp in-4°: "Messieurs. We see with pleasure, the zeal with which you are animated for the Salvation of the public thing. The aim of our institution being to propagate Patriotism in all parts of the Empire, all societies of Friends of the Constitution, must unite by the bonds of the most intimate fraternity, and endeavor to form one and the same family in order to work together to ensure the triumph of Laws and Liberty. Let us hope, Messieurs, that one day the whole Nation will do justice to the purity of our views, and that it will recognize, without difficulty, that the Societies of Friends of the Constitution have helped to establish Peace and Happiness in this empire. We hasten to inform you how flattered the Society has been to grant you the affiliation you have requested. Receive, Gentlemen, the most sincere assurance of the feelings of esteem and fraternity that all Friends of the Constitution owe each other."