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DESMOULINS Camille (1760 - 1794) L.A. (minute) et MANUSCRIT autographe| 2
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DESMOULINS Camille (1760 - 1794) L.A. (minute) and autograph MANUSCRIT| 2 and 1 pages in-4.
On his literary vocation, and draft of an address.
Paris June 4, 1789, to his father. He relates his approach to a prosecutor about a lawsuit: "as Mr. Titon is still your judge, although Mr. Cadet augurs well for him, I consider this lawsuit lost| for, as Mr. Titon does not know you, and as it is very indifferent to Mr. Titon whether it is a man named Desmoulins or a man named Godart who wins, your opposing prosecutor also being your judge's prosecutor, for this reason alone you must lose"... He thinks the judge is "a rascal and a scelerat", and urges his father to come to Paris himself to try and win his case... Then he turns to his literary vocation: "You criticize me for writing verses, [...] my verses at least will be printed, my verses have made me a reputation, it is to my verses that I owe my Americans, that I owe at the moment everything that makes my life dear. Suard and many others have told me that they judge me to be a decided talent, I am told that the play I am working on at the moment will be worth 1200 ll, and if I had only had a modest income from my parents, sufficient to live on, I dare to believe that by devoting myself entirely to letters, I would have acquired fame and fortune, and that without aspiring to the superb places of the Racines, the Boileau, and our great masters, I could have sat perhaps in the second rank, among the
Malherbe, the Chaulieu, the Quinault, the La Harpe etc." ....
[1789 ?]. Autograph draft of an Address by Camille Desmoulins
Electeur de la section du theatre françois au Corps Electoral (1st page only, with erasures and corrections, stain and collection stamp). Violent reply to BARNAVE: "To tell the truth, I am a journalist and I am not unaware that at the session of the 11th of this month
M. Barnave cited as an abomination of desolation that journalists had been named Electors| but it is obvious that
M. Barnave could not, in this prescription, have had my newspaper in mind, which he and his friends did not disdain to get their hands on, and for which they were the main source of notes. [...] A section has 26 representatives, to deprive it of a single one is to attack the sovereignty of the people"...
Enclosed: - a L.A.S. from his father Jean-Benoît DESMOULINS to citoyen Camille Desmoulins, député à la Convention, Guise 23 novembre 1792 (1 p. in-4, address), asking him to intervene for his replacement as commissaire national près du tribunal, transferred from Guise to Vervins| - a L.A. from
Lucile DESMOULINS to her mother Mme Duplessis, [Essonne] Thursday 20 [February 1793] (1 p. in-8), she worries about the coming of her sister
Adèle, whom she will only be able to accommodate very badly, as Didot fils has just arrived at their home| she asks for boots and slippers for C. [Camille]...
On his literary vocation, and draft of an address.
Paris June 4, 1789, to his father. He relates his approach to a prosecutor about a lawsuit: "as Mr. Titon is still your judge, although Mr. Cadet augurs well for him, I consider this lawsuit lost| for, as Mr. Titon does not know you, and as it is very indifferent to Mr. Titon whether it is a man named Desmoulins or a man named Godart who wins, your opposing prosecutor also being your judge's prosecutor, for this reason alone you must lose"... He thinks the judge is "a rascal and a scelerat", and urges his father to come to Paris himself to try and win his case... Then he turns to his literary vocation: "You criticize me for writing verses, [...] my verses at least will be printed, my verses have made me a reputation, it is to my verses that I owe my Americans, that I owe at the moment everything that makes my life dear. Suard and many others have told me that they judge me to be a decided talent, I am told that the play I am working on at the moment will be worth 1200 ll, and if I had only had a modest income from my parents, sufficient to live on, I dare to believe that by devoting myself entirely to letters, I would have acquired fame and fortune, and that without aspiring to the superb places of the Racines, the Boileau, and our great masters, I could have sat perhaps in the second rank, among the
Malherbe, the Chaulieu, the Quinault, the La Harpe etc." ....
[1789 ?]. Autograph draft of an Address by Camille Desmoulins
Electeur de la section du theatre françois au Corps Electoral (1st page only, with erasures and corrections, stain and collection stamp). Violent reply to BARNAVE: "To tell the truth, I am a journalist and I am not unaware that at the session of the 11th of this month
M. Barnave cited as an abomination of desolation that journalists had been named Electors| but it is obvious that
M. Barnave could not, in this prescription, have had my newspaper in mind, which he and his friends did not disdain to get their hands on, and for which they were the main source of notes. [...] A section has 26 representatives, to deprive it of a single one is to attack the sovereignty of the people"...
Enclosed: - a L.A.S. from his father Jean-Benoît DESMOULINS to citoyen Camille Desmoulins, député à la Convention, Guise 23 novembre 1792 (1 p. in-4, address), asking him to intervene for his replacement as commissaire national près du tribunal, transferred from Guise to Vervins| - a L.A. from
Lucile DESMOULINS to her mother Mme Duplessis, [Essonne] Thursday 20 [February 1793] (1 p. in-8), she worries about the coming of her sister
Adèle, whom she will only be able to accommodate very badly, as Didot fils has just arrived at their home| she asks for boots and slippers for C. [Camille]...