François-Antoine BOISSY D'ANGLAS (1756-1826) Conventionnel (Ardèche). Autograph manuscript, Pensées diverses sur les mœurs, la politique &a et la révolution française; 28-page in-8 notebook, with erasures and corrections. Very interesting notebook of recollections and notes on the Revolution. On Malesherbes and his opposition to popular juries: "Etablissés un juri a Toulouse," he told me, "et Calas sera encore roué"; on Abbé Dubos and the superiority of the fine arts and Literature, the judgment of philosophers and writers who are content to speak of the French of Paris or Versailles, on Montesquieu who often copied the ideas of others, etc.; on the Prince of Brunswick to whom the French Revolution was addressed. on the Prince of Brunswick, to whom France offered the command of its armies when war was declared against Austria in 1792: "Brunswick was about to accept this command, when the Queen's intrigues caused war to be declared against Prussia, and Brunswick then took sides against France"; on the flight to Varennes: "J'ai oui dire qu'il y avait un parti en France lorsque le roi s'enfuit, qui voulait le déposer et creer une republique avec un protecteur ou president qui aurait été ce meme prince de Brunswic... Carra, one of the barkers of this party, constantly praised him in the papers and to the Jacobins". Boissy d'Anglas also mentions other Revolutionary figures, such as La Fayette, the legislator Bonnier d'Alco, the Conventionnel Roberjot, Dietrich, the mayor of Strasbourg "victim of Robespierre's tirannie", General Laharpe, Serbelloni and others. He speaks of Denmark, where "the King is constitutionally in charge and the people are extremely happy"; of Freemasonry and the organization of the Grand Orient with the Duke of Orléans at its head to fight against the Knights Templar, whose Grand Master was the Prince of Brunswick... of Philippe-Égalité, to whom he compares the Prince de Conti "less villainous and more popular"; of Rabaut Saint-Étienne, Monthion's work on Louis XVIII and the explanation provided by a "fiery republican" who voted for the death of Louis XVI for having "established and collected taxes not voted by the people's assemblies, [.... given lettres de cachet when the constitution forbade it [...] having drawn loans against the wishes of the representatives of the people"... Etc.