SAINT-JUST Louis Antoine de [Decize, Nièvre,... - Lot 186 - Varenne Enchères

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SAINT-JUST Louis Antoine de [Decize, Nièvre,... - Lot 186 - Varenne Enchères
SAINT-JUST Louis Antoine de [Decize, Nièvre, 1767 - Paris, 1794], deputy to the Convention of the Aisne. Letter signed and countersigned by Le Bas. Strasbourg, 13 of the 2nd month of year 2 [November 3, 1793]; 2 pages in-folio. In heading this mention again signed by Saint-Just: "Copy of the letter that we write to the committee, do not communicate it too much." In November 1793, Saint Just and Le Bas were sent on a mission to the Netherlands. The two heroic young men made miracles of activity and energy on this border. They reorganized the army, suppressed the squandering, punished the guilty leaders, raised a forced loan on the rich people of Strasbourg for the maintenance of the troops and preserved the city from those who wanted to hand it over to the enemy, terrified all the suspects without making a single head fall. They proved to be no less great soldiers than organizers, and guided the armies of the Moselle and the Rhine with sword in hand. Wissembourg was recaptured, Landau was delivered from the cries of Landau or death, and the enemy was swept from French soil. Saint-Just, in these two beautiful and impassioned pages, reports to the Committee of Public Safety on the measures to be taken in Alsace; the situation of the troops is exposed in detail, the causes of weakness are analyzed and the measures of recovery are taken with rigor. If these are carried out, the situation of the troops is exposed in detail, the causes of weakness analyzed and the measures of recovery taken with rigor. If these are carried out, the situation will change completely: "We will march on all sides like thunder without stopping, without letting the enemy breathe, we will fortify ourselves with the garrisons of Bitche, Petite Pierre, Ligtemberg, Fort Vauban, Landau, we will devour the Palatinate, then we will have recovered our Hundred Thousand Men who are null and void now because of the baseness of those who have governed the affairs. A few days later Saint-Just showed a rare intrepidity at the recapture of Wissembourg.
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