SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de (1740-1814) écri - Lot 121

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SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de (1740-1814) écri - Lot 121
SADE Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de (1740-1814) écrivain. L.A., Vincennes 15 vendémiaire [IV] (October 7, 1795), to François GAUFRIDY, in Apt; 3 pages in-4 filled with small, tight handwriting, addressed with Vincennes postmark (small tear from broken seal with loss of 2 line ends, crack repaired on back). Letter of complaints to his lawyer, ending with lines about the insurrectionary day of 13 Vendémiaire, which made him fear for his eldest son. The prisoner complains: "you do not send me anything, not even news of my provisions you had made hope for the end of 7bre. It is now the end of October and nothing has arrived. I beg you to send me both money and my provisions and above all an exact picture of what I can expect during 1796 so that I can arrange myself accordingly; do not make me languish so long, I beg you, it is cruel to hold me like this. He does this this year because I could compensate myself a little for all the losses that the rapacity of the farmers' scelerats has caused me to suffer for five years. He says that it is not in gold that Lombard must pay but in money, that he does not know how to send me this. He says that his municipality has taken a decree by which I am forced to sell 16 septiers at 500 for the poor; I opposed it, and I wrote to his municipality that I was the first poor, that I had been starving for 5 years and that since the law compensated me, I wanted to be compensated. He says that I owe him 1494ll which is false [...]. He says that I owe the taxes of 1793 and 1794, which is false [...]. The wheat he sent me is detestable, and he makes me pay for it in such a way that bread costs me 21s a pound. In a word, this man seeks only my loss and ruin. You should have recognized his misdeeds and rid me of this infidel agent"... He asks for explanations about the two past due grassland payments of 1795, and "for the thousandth time" begs him to finish Audibert's indemnities: Gaufridy has all the air to him to be in a lethargy... November 1 approaches, and if that continues it will not have what is called a ground, "and in the name of God do not let you by dazzled by the sums in assignats"... Finally he evokes the repression of the riot of Vendémiaire: "A relentless deplaced comes to arm the Sections of Paris against the Convention. Prepared for this event Paris was armed with troops and artillery. On the 5th of February at 4 o'clock in the evening the cannonade began, it still lasted until almost midnight, there is a lot of damage in the streets near the Convention, and in which the action took place, one assures that the number of dead and wounded is considerable, it must be; the advantage is on the side of the Convention, the Sections are unarmed and the line troops are serving Paris. I may have made a terrible loss there, who you know was there, and I have no news of this young man"...
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