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[THE TRIAL OF LOUIS XVI] [Manuscript].
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[THE TRIAL OF LOUIS XVI] [Manuscript].
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
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Description
[THE TRIAL OF LOUIS XVI] [Manuscript]. Roll calls during the trial of Louis XVI. One volume, quarto size, in full contemporary calfskin, with a ribbed spine bearing the title: Procés de Louis XVI - Vol. V. Top cap damaged, some skin wear.
An important contemporary manuscript, or one dating from close to the events, devoted to the roll calls and votes of the deputies of the Convention during the trial of Louis XVI. Written in perfectly legible black ink on bluish, fully ruled paper, the volume brings together, in the form of lists, tables and transcriptions, the details of the votes and opinions expressed by the members of the Convention during the decisive sessions of 15 to 20 January 1793.
It comprises:
1/ An alphabetical list of the Deputies of the National Convention who, during the roll-call votes, voted in favour of the condemnation of Louis XVI. 16 pp.
2/ A comparative list of the four roll-calls held during the sittings of 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 January 1793 concerning the trial of Louis XVI, and the opinions of the Deputies to the National Convention during each of those sittings. (1) f., 36 pp.
3/ Result of the first [–fourth] roll call. (2) ff.
4/ [First roll call] Opinions of various Deputies during the first roll call on the question: Is Louis guilty of conspiracy against the liberty of the nation and of an attack on the general security of the State? pp. 1–13, (1) blank folio.
5/ Second roll call on the question: Shall the matter be put to the people, or not? pp. 15–56.
6/ Third roll call of 16 and 17 January 1793 on the question: What sentence shall be imposed on Louis? pp. 57–233.
7/ Fourth Appeal. Individual opinions on the question of the proposed reprieve from the execution of the judgement passed against Louis XVI. 30 pp.
At the end of the volume, two printed documents have been bound in:
1/ Decree of the National Convention No. 250 of 15, 17, 19 & 20 January 1793 concerning Louis Capet, the last King of the French. Paris, National Executive Press of the Louvre, 1793. 4 pp.
2/ Proclamation of the Provisional Executive Council of 20 January 1793. Paris, National Executive Press of the Louvre, 1793. 2 pp. Text setting out the practical arrangements for the execution of Louis XVI the following day, 21 January, at the Place de la Révolution: departure from the Temple at eight o’clock and arrangements made for the execution.
The fact that the manuscript and the two official texts, printed immediately after the votes were cast, are bound together in a contemporary binding suggests that the collection was compiled at the time of the events or very shortly thereafter.
A valuable document on the trial of Louis XVI and the votes of the members of the Convention, of exceptional scope, preserved in its contemporary binding and accompanied by two of the official texts which concluded the trial and ordered the king’s execution.
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