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MIRABEAU - French Revolution - Signed autograph letter

Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Comte de MIRABEAU (1749 - 1791), French revolutionary, the great orator of the beginnings of the French Revolution.

Autograph letter signed "Mirabeau fils" to Mr. Michaud, king's attorney at Mr. Morand's in Largillia. [February 20, 1776]; 1/2 pages in-8 °, address on the back, two vestiges of red wax seal, address page with dirt.

Mirabeau wanted for adultery hides in Pontarlier, he binds with Jean-Baptiste Michaud, king's attorney at the bailiwick of Pontarlier, brother of Jeanneton his mistress: "As soon as my letter received, I expect your friendship, my dear friend, that you will ride your horse to come here. You will find me there where your sisters tell you, and where they alone know, you can see me there immediately, Bring Monvaiset; ask him on my behalf to follow you immediately; I embrace you, do not delay a moment. It's all about. Mardi Gras at 9:30 in the evening ... "

Spender and fickle, Mirabeau suffered reprisals from his father. He was successively banned in 1774, imprisoned at the Château d'If then at the Fort de Joux. Benefiting from leniency, he can find accommodation in the nearby town of Pontarlier. He frequents good society and continues his frivolities, the Marquise Sophie de Monnier becomes one of his mistresses, it ends not being known, which forces him to hide in Pontarlier in mid-January 1776, he is then kept informed. of the imprisonment procedure against him by the lawyer Mauvaiset, lover of a light girl, Marguerite Barbaud, at whose house Mirabeau met Sophie Monnier.
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