Pierre CALLIÈRES DE L'ESTANG (1724-1795) lawyer,... Lot 50
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Pierre CALLIÈRES DE L'ESTANG (1724-1795) lawyer, one of the victors of the Bastille, juror of the Revolutionary Court, creator of a battalion of volunteer veterans nicknamed the Royal-Pituite to march against the Vendée. L.A.S., Paris October 28, 1790, to the mayor of Nancy; 1 page in-4, address with red wax seal.
After the affair of Nancy. "Commander of the venerable Battalion," he asks the mayor to send him "a somewhat detailed notice on the life and actions of M. des Isles, [the knight Desilles, mortally wounded while trying to calm revolting soldiers in Nancy in August 1790], whose memory my battalion will celebrate today Thursday in eight in the church of Cordeliers. A famous orator is working on his eulogy. [...] 24 cities have created 24 battalions of old men or veterans devoted to the fatherland following my example; 43 thousand villages each have a veteran; the second-rate cities have at least one company; I have the happiness of being their teacher, commissioner and general inspector. Grant this grace to the zeal of the veterans burning the civic zeal forever memorable of the city of Nancy "...
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