LOUVET de COUVRAY (Jean-Baptiste). 1760-1797. Writer, author - Lot 145

LOUVET de COUVRAY (Jean-Baptiste). 1760-1797. Writer, author of Faublas, member of the Convention. Autograph note. S.d. (1795). 1 pp. in-8. Minute of a speech to the Convention, defending himself from his patriotism under the Terror; Deputies, (...) it seems to me that this is not the time to go into this part of my opinion. I will support it when the time comes (...). It was the Republic that was called the Terror, while reorganizing a real terror; I will prove that it was all republicans who were called terrorists; and I will prove it on irrefutable documents, on official documents written, published and signed by a government agent (...). It's time to take a decisive stand. The Chouans of Vendémiaire have regained some of their audacity; we are preaching disobedience to the law of Brumaire 3 (...). ATTACHED 2 autograph letters from Marguerite Denuelle dite LODOISKA (†1827), wife of the Conventionnel Louvet. - L.A.S. "femme Louvet" to a bookseller. S.l.n.d. (after 1797). 2 pp. in-12. Accused of having received books improperly, she explains herself vigorously, showing that she was at Louvet's bedside; (...) The time of my misfortunes goes back to the time of my move. I hadn't been living on rue de Grenelle for 3 months when my husband fell ill. I'll give an account of the people who saw me then. They will say that night and day at my husband's bedside, I had absolutely abandoned my belongings (...). It's true that I didn't see the dictionaries, because they announced a bundle that I refused (...). Then she ironizes: "What's more, my dear Louvet was a blood-drinker, so I may as well be a swindler. Good people must now expect anything. The real misfortune is that life is so long (...). - L.A.S. "femme Louvet" to citizen Mestais in Nemours. S.l.n.d. (after 1797). 1 pp. in-8, address on verso, apostille. Evoking her grief at Louvet's death. She announces to her friend her departure for Chancy; (...) I will leave as soon as possible (...) I will stop at your place on my way to and from Chancy, and will stay there for several days. I'm going to buy a horse and a convertible for this trip. Couldn't Mme Charlieu lend us a stable and a shed? Her poor Duval will serve as a postilion. She asks him to keep all her correspondence, and goes on to talk about her widowhood: "I won't tell you about my condition. My friend, you don't think well of it when you believe that my loss would leave you with such cruel memories. My life should distress you even more (...). On verso, autograph apostille from Louvet's son, Félix, about this letter, ending by exclaiming: (...) What a heartbreaking memory!