Joseph-Antoine-Joachim CERUTTI (1738-1792) Jesuit,... Lot 28
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Joseph-Antoine-Joachim CERUTTI (1738-1792) Jesuit, literary scholar and journalist, friend and collaborator of Mirabeau, deputy of Paris to the Legislative Assembly. L.A.S., [May ?1789], to the editor of a newspaper; 4 pages in-4.
Appeal to justice. The newspaper having "the humanity to welcome all reasonable complaints", he confides his claim to it: "For seven years, I have been asking for the judgment of a lawsuit on which depends all my fortune and that of my children". He bought a land from which he has not yet "withdrawn a sol of income" because of a formality forgotten in the contract. He went from court to court, the judges changed, public unrest suspended the judgment, and just when he thought that his trial was finally going to end, his lawyer was elected deputy for the Third Estate, the rapporteur deputy for the Clergy and a councilor at the Grand Chamber deputy for the Nobility: "Here is my land which still escapes me for a long time [...] here is my family which is less philosophical and less patriotic than I, and which consequently almost rises against the States General and revolts in some way against the public good". He asks to "publish my resignation, so that it serves as an example to all the litigants who would be as unfortunate as I am"...
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