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BILLAUD-VARENNE Jacques-Nicolas (1756-1819)
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BILLAUD-VARENNE Jacques-Nicolas (1756-1819)
conventional, member of the Committee of Public Salvation, sentenced in 1795 to deportation.
SET of more than 30 autographed documents, signed or addressed to him, La Rochelle, Cayenne
, Haiti 1795-1819.
Interesting together on the life in deportation and exile from Billaud-Varenne to Cayenne
and then to Haiti.
Arrested on 2 April 1795, Billaud-Varenne was deported to Cayenne and spent four years in the terrible Sinnamary camp. He refused Bonaparte's pardon after 18 Brumaire, but, free, returned to Cayenne and settled on the farm of the emigrant from Orvilliers, whom he had to leave in 1802 for the Hermitage, where he lived modestly from his crops, assisted by his former Guadeloupean slave, whom he called Virginie. His wife Angelique got a divorce because of the absence of the spouse. In 1816, after the return of the Bourbons, Billaud had to leave Guyana and settled in Port-au-Prince (Haiti), where he received a small pension from President Alexandre Pétion. He died, forgotten by all, in June 1819. In addition to bequeathing his French possessions (including the manuscript of his memoirs) to his brother Benjamin, he bequeathed to his very faithful companion in exile, Virginia, a "free Negress", everything he owned in Haiti, "to pay her back for the immense services she has rendered me for more than eighteen years [...] and for her inviolable attachment, by agreeing to follow me wherever I go". Virginia is the source of this valuable set of documents. Here's a
quick overview.
* Billaud-Varenne tricolor cockade
(Ø 6.5 cm).
* Handwritten notes on the English and American press, 1795 (more than 30 p. in various formats, in notebooks or loose leaf): political tendencies, interventions at the Convention, ambassadors' movements, violence of the chouans, illusions of emigrants, plan for a new constitution, struggles... * 5 l.a.s. of his father, Nicolas-Simon Billaud (and postscript of his mother or his y
conventional, member of the Committee of Public Salvation, sentenced in 1795 to deportation.
SET of more than 30 autographed documents, signed or addressed to him, La Rochelle, Cayenne
, Haiti 1795-1819.
Interesting together on the life in deportation and exile from Billaud-Varenne to Cayenne
and then to Haiti.
Arrested on 2 April 1795, Billaud-Varenne was deported to Cayenne and spent four years in the terrible Sinnamary camp. He refused Bonaparte's pardon after 18 Brumaire, but, free, returned to Cayenne and settled on the farm of the emigrant from Orvilliers, whom he had to leave in 1802 for the Hermitage, where he lived modestly from his crops, assisted by his former Guadeloupean slave, whom he called Virginie. His wife Angelique got a divorce because of the absence of the spouse. In 1816, after the return of the Bourbons, Billaud had to leave Guyana and settled in Port-au-Prince (Haiti), where he received a small pension from President Alexandre Pétion. He died, forgotten by all, in June 1819. In addition to bequeathing his French possessions (including the manuscript of his memoirs) to his brother Benjamin, he bequeathed to his very faithful companion in exile, Virginia, a "free Negress", everything he owned in Haiti, "to pay her back for the immense services she has rendered me for more than eighteen years [...] and for her inviolable attachment, by agreeing to follow me wherever I go". Virginia is the source of this valuable set of documents. Here's a
quick overview.
* Billaud-Varenne tricolor cockade
(Ø 6.5 cm).
* Handwritten notes on the English and American press, 1795 (more than 30 p. in various formats, in notebooks or loose leaf): political tendencies, interventions at the Convention, ambassadors' movements, violence of the chouans, illusions of emigrants, plan for a new constitution, struggles... * 5 l.a.s. of his father, Nicolas-Simon Billaud (and postscript of his mother or his y