Lot n° 23
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Charles COCHON de LAPPARENT (1750-1825) conventionnel, minis - Lot 23
Charles COCHON de LAPPARENT (1750-1825) conventionnel, minister of police and prefect. Set of approximately 75 letters or documents, 1774-1820.
Important archive: letters from him or to him (L.A.S. or L.S.), P.S. and documents concerning him.
- Autograph manuscript of genealogical notes from 1602 to 1701; baptismal certificate extract (Champdenier 1750); marriage contract with Anne Félicité Quéré (Fontenay 1774); note concerning his duties as judge in Fontenay; estate of his father-in-law Quéré (1782); letter from lawyer Giraudeau (Poitiers 1787).
- L.a.s. as deputy to the National Assembly concerning a prisoner (January 1791). L.a.s. to Dumouriez on Servan's resignation (Sept. 30, 1792). 5 letters (including 2 l.a.s.) from BEURNONVILLE to Cochon (Paris nov.
1791, Quévrin oct. 1792, Sarrelouis january 1793). L.a.s. from COCHON to Debry (Maubeuge March 24, 1793), on the battle of Neerwinde. L.a.s from J.F. COSSIGNY on gunpowder (1794). L.a.s. from COCHON to Garos (Belleville, Charrette's headquarters, 8 Vendémiaire IV), on the fighting against Charrette. Letter from the Comité de Salut Public (signed by Cambacérès, La Revellière-Lépeaux, Le Tourneur and Merlin de Douai) to Cochon in
Angers (10 Vendémiaire IV), concerning Hoche's operations, the arrival of a "considerable convoy of enemies" on the Brittany coast, food supplies... 3 l.a.s. from general BELLIARD to Cochon (Fontenay germinal IV, and
Vérone 1er prairial et 11 fructidor V), on the repression in Vérone and the campaign in the states of Venice... - 10 l.s. from COCHON as Minister of the General Police of the Republic (1796-1797), and a p.s. concerning his secret expenses; plus a printed report. Autograph note concerning his action, and secret expenditures financed by gambling houses. 15 p.s. by his successor LENOIR-LAROCHE and 1 by SOTIN, concerning the Ministry's accounting and expenditures. L.s. and 2 p.s. by CARNOT on behalf of the Executive Directory: dismissal of Carnot and his replacement by Lenoir-Laroche. 2 l.s. by LAGARDE, secretary general of the Directoire... - L.s. as Prefect of Vienne (an VIII). 3 l.a.s. as prefect of Deux-Nêthes (Anvers 1806) to his son-in-law
Regnault, and to M. Tourangin concerning the marriage of his son Emmanuel, sub-prefect of Issoudun; and one of 1808 to Cambacérès. L.a.s. to Napoléon, February 23, 1811, requesting a prefecture for his son (apostille signed NP de
Napoleon at the head). 5 family l.a.s. (1813-1814) to Tourangin-Courant in Issoudun, and to his son-in-law Regnault.
- L.a.s. to Fouché (July 19, 1815) in favor of his son Emmanuel, who was sub-prefect of Issoudun, then general police commissioner in Livorno. 3 l.a.s to Boissy d'Anglas (Louvain and Paris 1818-1819), requesting him to ask the king to pardon his return, then thanking him on his arrival in France.
ATTACHED: a small file concerning his son Hippolyte; and an extensive documentary collection: copies of letters and documents, correspondence, catalog extracts, printed matter; plus Paul Boucher's Charles Cochon de Lapparent (Paris, Picard, 1969).
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