Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris Autographed Letter Signed The Terror 1836

  

Autographed letter signed by Marc-Antoine Jullien de Paris, a friend of Robespierre, assigned by him to important missions during the Terror. Letter of 3 pages, dated February 18, 1836, in Paris, written in black ink on a double sheet of watermarked vellum paper.

President, I had the honor of presenting myself to you as a candidate for the position left vacant by the death of Mr. Count Roederer in the Moral Section of the Academy of Moral Sciences. Not having had the advantage of meeting you, I take the liberty of writing to you and sending a notice indicating the works and studies that may give me some claims to your favor.

Dimensions: 18.8 x 23.7 cm.

Condition: See photos for more details. Number of pages: 3 pages.

Provenance: Seignolle sale of 15/03/24 - lot 36, French Revolution, The Terror - Binder IV. Marc-Antoine Jullien, known as "Jullien fils" or "Jullien de Paris," to distinguish him from his father, known as "Jullien de la Drôme," was born on March 10, 1775, in Paris, where he died on October 28, 1848. He was a revolutionary, a man of letters, and a French educator. Maximilien de Robespierre, or Maximilien Robespierre, was a French lawyer and politician born on May 6, 1758, in Arras and guillotined on the 10th of Thermidor in Year II in Paris, Place de la Révolution.

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