Liberte, Egalite, Le Directoire Executif aux Citoyens de Paris.

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[Paris]: L'Imprimerie du Directoire Executif, 1797. A Turning Point of the French Revolution [Broadside]. [French Revolution]. [Coup of 18 Fructador]. Liberte, Egalite. Le Directoire Executif aux Citoyens de Paris. [Paris]: De L'Imprimerie du Directoire Executif, [1797]. 21-1/2" x 16-1/2" (55 x 42 cm) broadside, untrimmed edges. Light toning, vertical and horizontal fold lines, a few creases to lower-right corner, small faint dampstain at head, upper-right corner lacking with no loss to text. A well-preserved item. $1,250. * Signed in type by Paul Barras and Louis Marie de La Revelliere-Lepeaux, this broadside announces the Coup d'etat of 18 Fructador (September 4, 1797), a turning point of the French Revolution. Initiated by three members of the Directory, Barras, Revelliere-Lepeaux and Jean-Francois Rewbell, this coup was motivated by a fear that recently elected legislative majorities would attempt to restore the monarchy. As Cobban notes, the "legislative bodies were purged, the elections of forty-nine departments quashed, all opposition journals suppressed, and seventeen of the more prominent enemies of [Barras, Rewbell and Revelliere-Lepeaux] dispatched to the 'dry guillotine,' French Guiana, where eight of them rapidly died. A few hundred priests were also sent to Guiana, and a similar number of other opponents of the regime were tried by military courts and shot. For a short period it was a new Terror, but one inspired not by republican ardour but by political calculation. The Republic had been saved and even the appearance of liberty lost. With the aid of the army the politicians of the Directory still held precariously to their power and kept the centre of the stage, but the tramp of marching men increasingly drowned their voices, and from the wings the figure of Bonaparte cast a deepening shadow." This appears to be an unrecorded imprint. No copies located on OCLC or at the National Library of France (Bibliotheque Nationale de France). Cobban, A History of Modern France I:254.

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Liberte, Egalite, Le Directoire Executif aux Citoyens de Paris.

Erscheinungsjahr

1797

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[Paris]: L'Imprimerie du Directoire Executif, 1797

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