- MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel RIQUETTI, Comte de), Deputy of th - Lot 300

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- MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel RIQUETTI, Comte de), Deputy of th - Lot 300
- MIRABEAU (Honoré Gabriel RIQUETTI, Comte de), Deputy of the Sénéchaussée d'AIX at the States General, the Great Speaker of the Constituent Assembly (Bignon (77) 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 Jacobins Club.) "Approved for printing, MIRABEAU THE EARLY EARLY." - revolutionary text (1790) - 2pp in-4°. "Gentlemen. 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 the societies of the Friends of the Constitution, must unite by the bonds of the most intimate fraternity, and endeavour to form one and the same family in order to work together to ensure the triumph of Laws and Liberty. Let us hope, Gentlemen, that one day the entire nation will do justice to the purity of our views, and that it will recognize, without difficulty, that the societies of the Friends of the Constitution have helped to establish Peace and Happiness in this empire. We hasten to tell you how flattered the Society has been to grant you the affiliation you have asked for. Receive, gentlemen, the sincere assurance of the esteem and fraternity which all Friends of the Constitution owe each other."
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