VENDÉE WARS. Décret de la CONVENTION NATIONALE du 4 Mai 1793 - Lot 226

VENDÉE WARS. Décret de la CONVENTION NATIONALE du 4 Mai 1793, an 2, portant qu'il n'y a lieu à aucune inculpation contre le Général WESTERMANN,...". N°822. François-Joseph WESTERMANN, born September 5, 1751 in MOLSHEIM (Bas-Rhin, Alsace), guillotined April 5, 1794 in Paris, was a Brigadier General of the French Revolution, famous for the atrocities he committed during the Vendée wars. He was appointed Adjutant-General by the Executive Council, headed by Danton, who sent him on a secret mission to Dumouriez in the Armée du Nord after the September massacres. Arrested after Dumouriez's treason, he protested to the Convention and was released on May 4, 1793. Printed in MARSEILLE (13), by Ant.-Hré JOUVE et Comp, Imprimeur de la Nation, du Département..., rue Montée-des-Accoules. Cupboard (39 x 29) Condition A-.