Jean-François BOURSAULT-MALHERBE (1750-1842), actor and thea - Lot 526

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Jean-François BOURSAULT-MALHERBE (1750-1842), actor and thea - Lot 526
Jean-François BOURSAULT-MALHERBE (1750-1842), actor and theater director, then a member of the Girondin Convention; he was in charge of various missions in Brittany and in the western departments, clashed with Carrier, then with Hoche, adopted a moderate policy by freeing many suspects and by attacking the partisans of the Terror and Robespierre; after his political career, he devoted himself to the cultivation of rare plants, introduced several roses in France (he gave his name to the Boursault rose). - 2 manuscripts, one with autograph corrections and additions. 14 pp. in-folio. Interesting manuscripts intended for his defense, containing the copy of his writings and his correspondence with the Convention (1793-1795), in particular at the time of his action in Brittany and in the departments of the West and at the time of the arrest of the general Rossignol which was made at his initiative and on his denunciation. He specifies in his own hand that he "was expelled from the Jacobins for having told Robespierre that his face was smeared with gall like his heart; all the section assemblies were under the influence of Robespierre and as the guillotine was not yet in operation, Boursault could only be lost by slander and it is still the same system today under the influence of new Robespierres. - Set of 5 autograph letters signed by Boursault to different correspondents. - 2 letters addressed to Boursault, by Breton citizens, including one from Dominique-Isaac Thoinnet, defending his action in Brittany. "If all the representatives in mission in this department had behaved like you, Sir, I would not have to regret, all my brothers & a good part of my family who were their victims by all the kinds of torments they had imagined [] ".
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