Jean-Baptiste CARRIER (1756-guillotiné 1794) conventionnel (Cantal), organizer of the massacres of Nantes. L.A.S., Paris 1st Floréal II (April 20, 1794), to his brother Basile; 2 pages and a quarter in-4, small cracks at the folds (scotch repairs on the 2nd leaf).
"I hasten to announce to you that you have been raised to the first class of war commissioners and that you will receive the salary attached to it as of 15 germinal, you must probably have received the letter of the minister of war which informs you of it, keep it, it alone constitutes your quality, you do not need any other title, any other commission to authorize you to receive your salary"... He gives news of Valet, whose affair ends, and instructs him to withdraw "a sentence of the requests of the hotel or the palace to which I have acquiesced; because this sentence on the back of which is my acquiescence will always provide a title against me which will oblige me to pay my debt a second time. If you can find the funds to pay it after having reduced it by arrangement to what I legitimately owe [...], pay it at once and give the titles to my wife "... He also sends her letters for General Sistrières [a compatriot retired to Aurillac by virtue of a suspension of his functions as a noble]...
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