CHARENTE. 1791. SOCIÉTÉ DES AMIS DE LA CONSTITUTION... - Lot 234 - Vermot et Associés

CHARENTE. 1791. SOCIÉTÉ DES AMIS DE LA CONSTITUTION D'ANGOULÊME (Vignette de la Société) - Pièce signée des membres de la Société des amis de la Constitution séante aux cy devant Cordeliers. ANGOULÊME (16) August 27, 1791 - to Mr. le Président de la Société des Amis de la Constitution à POITIERS (Address). 2 pages in-4°: "Frères et Amis. Our Department, like yours, has emigrants and bodyguards whose departure seems suspicious to us. The warning you give us... can only have aroused the zeal of our national guards, who were already preparing themselves by daily exercises to usefully serve the cause of liberty, if as is feared it is attacked, at the moment when it must receive a Sanction which perhaps would make a generous people forgive the deviations into which their King has allowed himself to be drawn. The Regiment of which you speak passed through our town; Its short stay did not allow us to calculate its principles..."