Alexandre LENFANT (1726-1792) Jesuit, protégé... - Lot 30 - Ferri & Associés

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Alexandre LENFANT (1726-1792) Jesuit, protégé... - Lot 30 - Ferri & Associés
Alexandre LENFANT (1726-1792) Jesuit, protégé of King Stanislas then preacher at the Austrian court, he became confessor to Louis XVI and was a victim of the September massacres. L.A., July 24-25, 1792, to Mlle Morlot, at Mlle Rebouchet's home in Nancy (Lorraine); 3 pages in-4, address (some passages crossed out for publication, remaining legible). Long and interesting letter commenting on the political and military situation in France, shortly before he was massacred at the Abbey. "The present moment is always interesting. It is the moment of the greatest crisis in which the capital has ever been found, and fear is widespread. [...] There were still dangerous events in the Tuileries that the brigands are trying to force. The courageous attitude of the national grenadiers, their determination to open fire was restrained and repelled the malevolent, whose numbers have been increasing in recent days... One must read the Annales Monarchiques or the Gazette de Paris... It is "a farce" that the enlistment of vagrants, Bicêtre escapees and shrivelled men, to oppose the elite of the troops of Europe, and the generals who shout misery do not inflame the courage of the "constitutional warriors. Their bravery is all in words, bravado and song. They repeat that one freedom soldier alone is worth a thousand slaves of despotism [...] It is certain that the Austrian troops are already on French territory"... And to ironize on an intervention of General de Montesquiou in the Assembly, on the Armée du Midi... Taking up the pen on the 25th, he believes he can moderate the fears inspired by the "Jacobite threats"; On the 27th, the Emperor of Austria, "the King of Prussia, the electors, the princes of France must meet in Mainz to discuss the French revolution, and sign, it is claimed, the terrible manifesto. The King of Sardinia is also expected there, or at his default, the hereditary prince who married Madame Clotilde." He echoes what he read in the Bulletin on P
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