Théophile Malo de LA TOUR D’AUVERGNE-CORRET Lot n° 34

L.A.S., Passy 15 floréal VI (May 4, 1798), to a compatriot [Jacques LE BRIGANT ?]; 3 pages in-8 filled with a small tight handwriting. He gives an account of the steps taken in favor of his friend's son, and gives news of various friends... "you know that it is in the agony where our doctor friends are accustomed to wait for us to lavish their attentions on us"... He speaks of the subscriptions for his friend's work... He met General MOREAU at the house of Director Barras. "General KLEBER, his friend, has just left for Toulon, as well as General DESAIX, provisional commander in chief of the army of England. [...] Men of his caliber are very rare in this country, where one agrees to make a move, but to second it one is already rejected. The Parisians have the maxim of not taking on any other business than their own; their proverb is that to take on a single business here is to put a hundred on one's hands. [...] I have obtained my salary as a captain of the first class, with the extremely flattering and honorable agreement to retire to any place in the Republic that I wish to choose, while waiting for the government to employ me or to grant me my retirement. I think that I will go straight to Brittany to finally enjoy a few moments of rest in the bosom of my family after 36 years of service with my campaigns, the hardest of which is the one I have just done in Paris, finding myself reduced by fatigue, to the almost total extinction of my physical forces"... Etc.