Dominique-Denis CABARRUS le jeune (1722-1798)... Lot 516

Dominique-Denis CABARRUS le jeune (1722-1798) Bordeaux banker and slave owner. L.A.S., Yvrac November 3, 1793, to citizen Theresita Cabarrus [future Mme Tallien] in Bordeaux; 2pages in-8, addressed. Knowing that his niece (in fact great-niece) is "particularly acquainted with one of the Representatives of the People currently in Bordx" [Tallien], he asks her to intervene on behalf of a brother of citizen Deseze: "If the Representatives who are in Bordeaux have shown themselves to be severe, they have also shown themselves to be equitable, & and I ask nothing more of you than to interest the justice of the one you know [...] to bring to an end the affair of the detainee I recommend to you. These representatives are so busy at the moment, that it is not strange that things are going as fast as we would like"...