[Camille DESMOULINS (1760-1794)]. L.A.S. by RAILLARD, Paris October 23, 1790, to Camille Desmoulins "author of the Revolutions of France and Brabant, in Paris"; 2 pages in-4, address, ink stamp Papiers Cam. Desmoulins.

Virulent letter to Camille Desmoulins from a rabid Jacobin disciple of Marat. He may have been Raillard de Gravelle, president of the Jacobins-Saint-Honoré district. "You have in a way, by giving us the eulogy of Monsieur Loustalot, fulfilled the task you had set yourself; now your patriotic engraver should give us his portrait, with a small analise like Marat's or more or less (Peuple, vois ton ami), that would replace all the aristocrats he has given us He gave us at the head of your n° 46 [des Révolutions de France et de Brabant, Desmoulins' newspaper] Casalez going to threaten the president of the assembly"... He mentions Malouet, "Mirabeau toneau" [the brother of the great orator], Mounier and "the horde of the French theater [...] In your n° 47 you designate several deputies as sandoute of the good Jacobins to the electors of Paris to fill the place of magistrates among whom are MM Freteau and Target; certainly, Paris would not be the best shared in judge, and the royal palace would not risk anything ; see how he said in the asemblée nationalle that it was the duty of a good citizen to support with all his might the motion of friend Dupont concerning the citizens who made motions to the royal palace and the tuilleries for the dismissal of the royal minister, and so many others that I won't finish recounting them here The minister wouldn't be afraid with such judges, Marat is the judge, and if he's not a man of the law, he's no less of a judge, see his issue of yesterday, Wednesday 22nd". He continued to violently attack Lafayette, particularly during the days of October 5 and 6, 1789...
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[Camille DESMOULINS (1760-1794)]. L.A.S. by RAILLARD, Paris October 23, 1790, to Camille Desmoulins "author of the Revolutions of France and Brabant, in Paris"; 2 pages in-4, address, ink stamp Papiers Cam. Desmoulins. Virulent letter to Camille Desmoulins from a rabid Jacobin disciple of Marat. He may have been Raillard de Gravelle, president of the Jacobins-Saint-Honoré district. "You have in a way, by giving us the eulogy of Monsieur Loustalot, fulfilled the task you had set yourself; now your patriotic engraver should give us his portrait, with a small analise like Marat's or more or less (Peuple, vois ton ami), that would replace all the aristocrats he has given us He gave us at the head of your n° 46 [des Révolutions de France et de Brabant, Desmoulins' newspaper] Casalez going to threaten the president of the assembly"... He mentions Malouet, "Mirabeau toneau" [the brother of the great orator], Mounier and "the horde of the French theater [...] In your n° 47 you designate several deputies as sandoute of the good Jacobins to the electors of Paris to fill the place of magistrates among whom are MM Freteau and Target; certainly, Paris would not be the best shared in judge, and the royal palace would not risk anything ; see how he said in the asemblée nationalle that it was the duty of a good citizen to support with all his might the motion of friend Dupont concerning the citizens who made motions to the royal palace and the tuilleries for the dismissal of the royal minister, and so many others that I won't finish recounting them here The minister wouldn't be afraid with such judges, Marat is the judge, and if he's not a man of the law, he's no less of a judge, see his issue of yesterday, Wednesday 22nd". He continued to violently attack Lafayette, particularly during the days of October 5 and 6, 1789...

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[Camille DESMOULINS (1760-1794)]. L.A.S. by RAILLARD, Paris October 23, 1790, to Camille Desmoulins "author of the Revolutions of France and Brabant, in Paris"; 2 pages in-4, address, ink stamp Papiers Cam. Desmoulins. Virulent letter to Camille Desmoulins from a rabid Jacobin disciple of Marat. He may have been Raillard de Gravelle, president of the Jacobins-Saint-Honoré district. "You have in a way, by giving us the eulogy of Monsieur Loustalot, fulfilled the task you had set yourself; now your patriotic engraver should give us his portrait, with a small analise like Marat's or more or less (Peuple, vois ton ami), that would replace all the aristocrats he has given us He gave us at the head of your n° 46 [des Révolutions de France et de Brabant, Desmoulins' newspaper] Casalez going to threaten the president of the assembly"... He mentions Malouet, "Mirabeau toneau" [the brother of the great orator], Mounier and "the horde of the French theater [...] In your n° 47 you designate several deputies as sandoute of the good Jacobins to the electors of Paris to fill the place of magistrates among whom are MM Freteau and Target; certainly, Paris would not be the best shared in judge, and the royal palace would not risk anything ; see how he said in the asemblée nationalle that it was the duty of a good citizen to support with all his might the motion of friend Dupont concerning the citizens who made motions to the royal palace and the tuilleries for the dismissal of the royal minister, and so many others that I won't finish recounting them here The minister wouldn't be afraid with such judges, Marat is the judge, and if he's not a man of the law, he's no less of a judge, see his issue of yesterday, Wednesday 22nd". He continued to violently attack Lafayette, particularly during the days of October 5 and 6, 1789...
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