GENERAL DUMOURIEZ TO THE COUSIN OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE DUMOURIEZ (Charles-François). Correspondence of 9 letters, 8 autographed signed and one autographed, addressed to Louis de Sade. London, 1814-1815. Some addresses on the spine, one envelope preserved, 2 letters with tears due to opening without affecting the text. Superb political correspondence. General Dumouriez was living as an emigrant in London at the time, receiving a pension from the English government. Chevalier Louis de Sade (1753-1832), from a branch collateral to that of the author of Justine, had made a career as a naval officer, and had emigrated from the start of the Revolution, living most of the time in London until his final return in 1819. He published several works, including De la Tydologie, ou de la Science des marées (London, 1810-1813) and Dialogues politiques sur les principales opérations du Gouvernement français depuis la Restauration (London, 1815). - 31 September 1814: "I am sending you your nephew's letter, which is very interesting. It predicts in advance the uproar which has just broken out in Lyon, where, for the recall of the conscripts, the suburbs and the countryside have displayed the tricolour cockade, shouted vive Napoléon and killed five gendarmes... One awaits the continuation, & especially what Soult will do, whom many people distrust. It is feared that he will be the shepherd wolf... The speech by the good Macdonald caused a great sensation in both Houses, in the army and even in Paris. He even got me an offer from the Government to return; but the conditions did not suit me, I refused. That is where I stand, tell that to the excellent Count de La Châtre whom I love with all my heart even though he neglects me...". - 24 December 1814: "The Duke of Kent will be good enough... to give you your memoir tomorrow, which I have read with the greatest interest [the Duke of Kent was then living in Ealing, near Dumouriez]. It is full of luminous views, but too little developed for readers who are ignorant, of bad faith, or interested in the continuation of the chaos. Beugnot will understand nothing of it [Jacques-Claude Beugnot, then Minister of the Navy], will pass it on to his offices, and the whole kennel will bark at us. The chancellor sees in the word tribunal only an assembly of judges, whether civil or criminal. The Minister of the Navy and his henchmen, both pen and sword, will only see it as a terrible brake and an unbearable censorship...". - 18 March 1815: "... Nothing is hopeless yet, if we don't lose our heads. The army is divided into royalists and bonapartists, but the advantage of numbers will be for the former, being reinforced by the national guards... Besides, the king is master of the strongholds and the money. So I still hope...". - 30th March 1815: "... All is consummated. The defection is more universal than we had thought, & the ministers & entourage of our unfortunate king have harmed him as much as the frenzy of the army. There is not a man, not a village, left to support the cause of the Bourbons, which would be less desperate if they had not returned to France...". - 31 July 1815: "... I have read your dialogue with as much pleasure as interest, & it has given me another satisfaction, that of rereading for a second time the parts of your Tidology to which you refer through the quotations in the dialogues. It seems that the king is seriously concerned with his main concern at the moment, which is to let his clemency rest for a while so that his justice can take effect; but he is so good that I am still afraid it is only half a measure. I am counting on the excesses of the Jacobins to force him to punish. We will talk about all this...". - 6 April 1815: "I send you back... the pamphlet I already knew about by the intriguing Playfair against Lord Bathurst and La Châtre [published under the title A statement, which was made in October, to Earl Bathurst, one of His Majesty's principal secretaries of state, and in November, 1814, to the Comte de La Chatre, the French ambassador, of Buonoparte's plot to re-usurp the crown of France]. I had a full explanation from the latter, with whom I dined on Monday... Between you and me we would have made a pope, because we found ourselves entirely of the same opinion on the causes of Bonaparte's return, & I used in a memorandum which is already in the hands of the minister precisely the same arguments that you developed for me in your long letter.... with regard to the Pope, according to the indelible character of sacrament which he attaches to the coronation which he had the cowardice to give himself to Bonaparte, he must recognise him without difficulty as Emperor of France &a, he will perhaps send him Cardinals Fesch & Maury as legates a latere. I hope that if he takes this noble course, and if the Allies and the nation restore Louis the betrayer to the throne, France will have a patriarch and we will be schismatic, otherwise I will become a Muslim without allowing myself to be cut off. Do you understand, Monsieur le Moine, slave of the Holy See? I kiss you...". - 25 May 1815: "... I suspected that Lucien [Bonaparte] was joining forces with his brother. After all his republican crimes, he was reduced to composing long poems, a new kind of torture that he imposed on his contemporaries, because posterity will be exempt from reading them. But once he got together with his collaborators Cambacérès, Carnot, Fouché, Merlin and company, he was going to compose prose against the despotism of the pseudo-Charlemagne [allusion to the long poem Charlemagne ou l'Église délivrée that Lucien Bonaparte had simultaneously published in Rome and London in 1814], & this new poem put into action produced some rather ridiculous if tragic scenes. The valley of Roncesvalles will be at the end & will swallow up all these heroes, even Ganelon Lucien [Dumouriez then quotes Virgil and jokingly distorts a line of Horace]...". - 1st January 1816: letter of good wishes including a poem which concludes as follows "... Unable to correct public foolishness, / Let us leave dark politics to the potentates / Let us drink, sing, laugh, carefree and happy, / Let us become the friends of our contemporaries...". - 8 June 1816: "... I hope that you will find in our country and among your parents the tranquillity, ease and peace that are the balm of old age. But at the same time I congratulate you on the wisdom which governs your approach, & which preserves you an azyl in this good country of freedom, in case you do not find enough stability on the volcanic soil which you are going to try... ". ENCLOSURE: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. Law relative to the nomination of M. Dumouriez to the rank of commander in chief of the army of the North. Given in Paris, 18 August 1792. In Paris, from the National Printing Office. 1792. In-4. The order of publication of this law in the departments given by the Provisional Executive Council, printed afterwards, is embellished with the signature of Danton (claw) and the seal of Louis XVI in red ink. - Convention nationale. Décret [...], du cinquième jour de nivôse, l'an second [25 décembre 1793], qui ordonne le rapide jugement des officiers prévenus de complicité avec Dumouriez, Custine, &c., & augmente les récompenses accordées aux défenseurs de la patrie. Auch, J. P. Duprat, 1793. In-4.