NON-VENU LOUVET DE COUVRAY, Jean-Baptiste (1760-1797),... Lot 290

NON-VENU
LOUVET DE COUVRAY, Jean-Baptiste (1760-1797), novelist and Conventionnel (Loiret), fervent Girondin and great opponent of Robespierre. Arrested on June 2, 1793 and outlawed, Louvet was not allowed to resume his seat as a representative until March 8, 1795. Set of 5 documents.
-Letter written by Jose MARCHENA (1768-1821, Spanish revolutionary
in France, pamphleteer, friend of the Girondins) addressed to M. le Baillif. Paris, 30th
germinal an III [April 19, 1795], 2 pp. in-4. He thanks his correspondent for the care
of his son Felix, and mentions his edition of Madame ROLAND's Memoires.
ROLAND: "I am sending you what is currently being published of the memoirs of a
republican woman, to whom I have done little justice in calling her a greater
man than her husband. You will find in it all the hallmarks of truth [...] it was
thrown together without pretension, without method, without study, without art, almost under the scaffold". He evokes the perils that surround them, not only terrorism, "very avid for our ruin, and our blood", but also royalism "so adept at taking on all sorts of forms, and whose resurrection would give birth to so many cruel factions among us". He hopes that harmony between France and Switzerland will never be disturbed, etc. At the head of the letter, his wife Lodoiska has written this autograph note: "This letter was written to Veiss by my dear Louvet, a clerk has copied it".
-3 interesting autograph political manuscripts by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray. S.l.n.d. 3 pp. in-4. Evokes the National Convention, the Terror, Mirabeau, etc.
"I find in the n� of 25 fructidor a letter containing the account of an alleged conversation, where to make it more odious one makes say to a representative of the people whom one calls a two-thirds: if the Parisians flinch we have ten thousand cartridges to oppose them [...]". To be studied.
-Item with autograph apostille. S.l., 27 Vendemiaire an III. 1 p. in-folio. He asks Merlin de Douai to promote citizen Dufriche "worthy in every respect".
Enclosed:
-LOUVET DE COUVRAY, Jean-Baptiste. "Discours [...] pour celebrer la memoire du representant du peuple FERAUD, assassine dans ses fonctions [...]". Lyon, Imprimerie des Halles de la Grenette, 14 prairial III [2 juin 1795]. 24 pp. in-8. Eulogy for the Conventionnel FERAUD, killed at the Convention during the insurrection of 1� prairial III [May 20]. Louvet recalls the circumstances of his death and retraces his career.
-LOUVET DE COUVRAY, Jean-Baptiste. "Discours prononce par le citoyen Louvet dans la seance du 12 Floreal [...]". Paris, Imprimerie de la Republique, Floreal year III. - Followed by a report on the trial of emigres (Chenier ? ). 19 pp. in-8.
Paperback.