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ROBESPIERRE, Maximilien François Marie Isidore de (1758-1794). Autograph letter signed to 'Messieurs de la municipalité de toulon', Paris, 10 August 1791, 1 page, 8vo, integral blank endorsed by the recipient ('M. Robespierre Il envoit un exemplaire de son adresse aux francais contenant sa justification').
A lofty declaration in the light of certain rumours: 'Quoique je me regarde au dessus des calomnies de tous les ennemis du bien public, j'ai un devoir les repousser depuis qu'ils les ont liées à un plan destructeur de la liberté. J'offre l'ecrit que j'ai consacré en meme tems et à ma defence et a celle de ma patrie a ceux qui ont acquis des droits sacrés à sa reconnaissance et à la mienne'.
The enclosure (not present) was Robespierre's Adresse aux Français, a denunciation of those who opposed the Jacobin clubs. It was said to have been read at a meeting of the Toulon Jacobins and heard 'in a religious silence'; Robespierre was made an honorary member of their club (J. M. Thompson. Robespierre, 1988, page 148). In the turbulent period from January to October 1791 Robespierre made over 60 speeches in the Constituent Assembly and he accepted the post of public prosecutor of Paris shortly after the date of the present letter.
A lofty declaration in the light of certain rumours: 'Quoique je me regarde au dessus des calomnies de tous les ennemis du bien public, j'ai un devoir les repousser depuis qu'ils les ont liées à un plan destructeur de la liberté. J'offre l'ecrit que j'ai consacré en meme tems et à ma defence et a celle de ma patrie a ceux qui ont acquis des droits sacrés à sa reconnaissance et à la mienne'.
The enclosure (not present) was Robespierre's Adresse aux Français, a denunciation of those who opposed the Jacobin clubs. It was said to have been read at a meeting of the Toulon Jacobins and heard 'in a religious silence'; Robespierre was made an honorary member of their club (J. M. Thompson. Robespierre, 1988, page 148). In the turbulent period from January to October 1791 Robespierre made over 60 speeches in the Constituent Assembly and he accepted the post of public prosecutor of Paris shortly after the date of the present letter.
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