ARMY OF THE PRINCES. "Lettre de MONSIEUR et de M. le Comte d - Lot 306

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ARMY OF THE PRINCES. "Lettre de MONSIEUR et de M. le Comte d - Lot 306
ARMY OF THE PRINCES. "Lettre de MONSIEUR et de M. le Comte d'ARTOIS, au Roi (LOUIS XVI) leur frère, avec la déclaration signée à Pilnitz le 27 Août 1791, par l'Empereur et le Roi de Prusse (Léopold et Frédéric-Guillaume). Lettre au Roi (Louis XVI) par M. le Prince de CONDÉ, M. le Duc de BOURBON, M. le Duc d'ENGHIEN." À Paris, Chez Laurent, Libraire, rue de la Hape, N°18. 25 pages in-8°: "SIRE, Notre Frère et Seigneur. When the Assembly which owes you its existence, and which has made it serve only the destruction of your power, believes itself to be at the moment of consummating its guilty enterprise; when to the indignity of holding you captive in the midst of your Capital, it adds the perfidy of wanting you to degrade your throne with your own hand ; when, finally, it dares to present you with the option of either subscribing to decrees which would be the misfortune of your Peoples, or of ceasing to be King, We hasten to inform Your Majesty that the Powers whose help we have claimed for Her, are determined to use their forces, and that the Emperor and the King of Prussia have just entered into a mutual undertaking... Our perfect submission is too well known to you for it ever to appear doubtful... Louis-Stanislas-Xavier, Charles-Philippe. At Schonburnslust Castle near Coblenz, September 30, 1791." "... We will all perish rather than suffer the triumph of crime, the debasement of the Throne and the overthrow of the Monarchy. Louis-Joseph de BOURBON, Louis Henri Joseph de BOURBON, Louis Antoine Henri de BOURBON."
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