ILLE-ET-VILAINE. - Lot 110

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ILLE-ET-VILAINE. - Lot 110
ILLE-ET-VILAINE. - Jean-Baptiste DIGAULTRAY (Quintin 1763-1834), deputy of Côtes du Nord during the Revolution, he will be mayor of Quintin (from 1800 to 1816). L.A.S. to "dear little good friend", 5 pp. ½ in-4. Rennes, Nov. 11, 1792. Tender letter to his wife, in which he also comments on the events of the time, especially in Rennes. "What the electoral assembly proposes to ask against the non-sworn priests is already executed since a long time in Ille et Vilaine. It has produced the best effect. One realizes that the churches are more frequented everywhere. The state of war between citizens is a violent state which cannot stand against the need for peace which is essential to man. The fire is soon extinguished when the most burning firebrands are removed. These firebrands are the priests, and the torches of the devotees will also soon be extinguished for lack of fuel. Measures have already been taken to stop the correspondence which is taking place on the coast by Jersey. When these measures have had their effect, it will be one less great lever for the Calotino-aristocratic party. Rennes is very quiet. A battalion of volunteers is leaving from here for Brest. It seems that it will embark with the 4th of our department and several others for the colonies of America. The volunteers, who want everything here, are jumping for joy while singing the hymn in fashion and it will go [] ". - Louis Anne Esprit RALLIER (La Rivière près Vitré 1749/1829), deputy of Ille-et-Vilaine during the Revolution; he had been taken prisoner by the Vendéens during the battle of Fougères on Nov. 3, 1793. Autograph manuscript signed. 2 pp. in-folio. Paris, February 3, 1810. Autobiographical note detailing his action under the old regime (in the American islands and during the American War of Independence) and the Revolution (in Brittany). "During the Revolution, he was elected by his fellow citizens to various positions, and successively served as a municipal officer, a free bursar of a hospital, and a district administrator. The hospital he directed [in Fougères] having been devastated by the army of the Vendéens, he gave up his entire pension to the representatives of the people on mission in Rennes, hoping that this sacrifice would make it easier for him to obtain the help that the poor, the sick and the wounded needed [] ".
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