AN 3. FALL OF ROBESPIERRE. " Proclamation... - Lot 338 - Vermot et Associés

AN 3. FALL OF ROBESPIERRE. " Proclamation of Jean DEBRY Representative of the French People, sent to the Departments of DRÔME, VAUCLUSE and ARDÈCHE. Made in MONTELIMAR on 10 Pluviôse year 3 (29 January 1795). "Indignant of the audacious struggle that the partisans of the bloodthirsty regime dare to raise and continue against justice and humanity, the entire National Representation spontaneously pronounced itself on the 25th Nivôse, and swore eternal war to the men of blood... Brigands! Only you can speak of royalty, only you can want a king; you wanted one, you had one, it was ROBESPIERRE; and you will get another one, so that his grateful tyranny will pronounce impunity for your crimes... Citizens of the Drôme, Vaucluse, and Ardèche, let us extend our arms to the lost patriot who acknowledges his error, but anathema to men of blood... and produce, under the flag of the Law,... crying Liberty, Equality, Justice and Happiness, without reaction, without vengeance, with the only name of the 9 thermidor, will destroy the atrocious hopes of the cannibals, exited or paid by our enemies, to share the shreds of the Republic.". this great moral insurrection... - Of the National Printing Office of Laws. (Original printing defect, folded printed paper.) Jean DE BRY is Conventionnel de l'AISNE. Cupboard (60 x 45) State B.