VERGNIAUD (Pierre Victurnien). Autograph letter signed to hi - Lot 26

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VERGNIAUD (Pierre Victurnien). Autograph letter signed to hi - Lot 26
VERGNIAUD (Pierre Victurnien). Autograph letter signed to his brother-in-law François Alluaud. Bordeaux, February 7, 1784. One p. 1/2 in-8. " ... The winter, without being very harsh in Bordeaux, has so frosted the zeal of MM. du Parlement that hearings start after 11 am and finish at noon. Prosecutors are not distributing cases, and young lawyers who have no bread to bake are beginning to find the time a little long. They are the ones who show the most zeal for justice to be well administered. I hope that this session I will work at the seneschal, where I have not yet pleaded. I will be indebted to Mr. le p[résiden]t de Verthamon who would, I believe, if he could, recommend me to all the world. I am all the more obliged to him as he is not ungrateful to me for my attachment to Mr. Dupaty and he never speaks ill of me...". François Alluaud managed the royal porcelain factory in Limoges from 1788 to 1793, and became mayor of the city in 1792. After a successful career as a lawyer in the Bordeaux parliament, Pierre-Victurnien Vergniaud (1753-1793) was a leading member of both the Legislative and Convention parliaments, each of which he chaired, and where he distinguished himself by his oratorical skills. It was he who announced the deposition of Louis XVI in August 1792 and his death sentence in January 1793. He himself suffered the same fate as the Girondins, and was guillotined on October 31, 1793. Little inclined to write letters, he left very few documents of his own.
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