![ROBESPIERRE, Maximilien François de (1758-1794). Autograph letter signed addressed to Danton, n.p. [Paris], '4 messidor' n.y. [22 June 1793], a reminder about a meeting today to which he referred yesterday, to ensure that Danton will not fail to go to it for they must both support the party, concluding 'Salut et fraternité Robespierre', seven lines written on one page, 8vo, integral leaf addressed 'au citoyen Danton', with an arithmetical calculation scribbled beside the address in a different hand (ink smudges affecting legibility of 4 words, torn at corners and margin, with part loss of one word, repaired).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/1995/CKS/1995_CKS_05424_0421_000(103241).jpg?w=1)
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ROBESPIERRE, Maximilien François de (1758-1794). Autograph letter signed addressed to Danton, n.p. [Paris], '4 messidor' n.y. [22 June 1793], a reminder about a meeting today to which he referred yesterday, to ensure that Danton will not fail to go to it for they must both support the party, concluding 'Salut et fraternité Robespierre', seven lines written on one page, 8vo, integral leaf addressed 'au citoyen Danton', with an arithmetical calculation scribbled beside the address in a different hand (ink smudges affecting legibility of 4 words, torn at corners and margin, with part loss of one word, repaired).
This urgent letter was written in the first month of the Terror and two days before the National Convention accepted the constitution of 1793. At a meeting of the Club des Jacobins on June 14th Danton had explained his failure to attend some of its meetings on the grounds of his numerous responsibilities on committees and in the Convention, where there were intriguers to be dealt with (A. Fribourg, Discours de Danton 1910).
This letter is not in Robespierre's Correspondence, ed. Michon, (1926).
This urgent letter was written in the first month of the Terror and two days before the National Convention accepted the constitution of 1793. At a meeting of the Club des Jacobins on June 14th Danton had explained his failure to attend some of its meetings on the grounds of his numerous responsibilities on committees and in the Convention, where there were intriguers to be dealt with (A. Fribourg, Discours de Danton 1910).
This letter is not in Robespierre's Correspondence, ed. Michon, (1926).