Jean-Jacques Duval d'ÉPRÉMESNIL (1745-1794)... - Lot 41 - Doutrebente

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Jean-Jacques Duval d'ÉPRÉMESNIL (1745-1794)... - Lot 41 - Doutrebente
Jean-Jacques Duval d'ÉPRÉMESNIL (1745-1794) a counselor at the Parliament of Paris, he was one of the leaders of the parliamentary opposition; deputy of the Nobility (Paris hors les murs) to the Estates General and to the Constituent, he violently opposed the Revolution; having refused to emigrate, he was guillotined. L.A.S., May 19, 1788; 1 1/2 pages in-4 (portrait attached). About his deportation to the islands of Sainte-Marguerite... The King's order "did not require that I be locked up in the Chateau des Isles Ste Marguerite, but only arrested and taken to the Isles Ste Marguerite. But the knight of Mongran, commander of the island, wanted to detain him in the castle. D'Épremesnil is "subject to pains in his entrails which are like nephritic colic. A little air and movement are very necessary for me. [...] The frankness of my character is well known. I am unable to attempt any outside correspondence, I do not say any suspicious correspondence, but any kind of correspondence, contrary in the least to the regulations of the place I live. Attached is a letter in the third person, November 15, 1776 (half page in-4), to the author of a memoir on "drugs-poisons", wishing "that we succeed in suppressing all the venoms that ambition and avarice draw from the bosom of the earth, and from the heart of man".
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