[Claude-Charles PROST]. Pierre PAGANEL (1745-1826), former d - Lot 31

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[Claude-Charles PROST]. Pierre PAGANEL (1745-1826), former d - Lot 31
[Claude-Charles PROST]. Pierre PAGANEL (1745-1826), former deputy (1791-1795) at the Legislative Assembly, at the Convention and at the Conseil des Cinq-Cents; then secretary general of the Minister of Foreign Relations. Autograph letter signed, Paris, 9 frimaire de l'an 6 [29 November 1797], "au Citoyen Prost". 1 p. two-sheet in-4°. Header of the Ministry of Foreign Relations, with republican sticker. Address on the back "To the Citizen / Prost, ex-member of the / Convention N[ation]ale hotel Brutus / rue battant // in Besançon", with red postal mark "P" [Paris]. Small lack without damage to the text at the address, due to the unsealing. Claude-Charles PROST, born on October 10, 1742 in Dole in the Jura and died on November 10, 1804 in the same city, was a lawyer at the Parliament of Besançon in 1768, then a justice of the peace under the Revolution. He was a deputy for the Jura from 1792 to 1795 and voted for the death of Louis XVI, sitting with the Montagne, and then a deputy for the Alpes-Maritimes in the Conseil des Cinq-Cents from 15 October 1795 to 20 May 1797. After the coup d'état of 18 fructidor year V (4 September 1797), he found himself without a mandate and asked his former colleagues. PAGANEL informs him that the minister [TALLEYRAND] has recommended him to the Directory to obtain a mission. "I have been engaged, my dear former colleague, in the matter which interests you before the receipt of your letter. The work in which you are included is at present under the eyes of the minister to the Directory and of mine to the minister. I very much desire to be able to announce to you soon that you are called to serve the republic. Hail Brotherhood Paganel " He will be judge of waters and forests, then president of the court of first instance of Dole. Fourquet, Les Hommes célèbres et les Personnalités marquantes de Franche-Comté, p. 201.
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