Help needed please : about Robespierre and Saint-Just

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Hello all!
I'm searching historical details I can't find (it's mostly dates). Can you help me please ? Here are my questions :
1 - Saint-Just wrote to Robespierre, far before meeting him. It was a letter full of admiration for Maximilien : anyone wan tell me when ? (month and year, please)
2 - When Robespierre and Saint-Just met for the first time ? any details about this encounter ?
3 - Robespierre was quite often ill. If memory serves, he was badly ill, for a very long time in may/june 1793 (for about a month), and then in february/march 1794 (for about a month again). Is that correct ? And is there others periods and dates where Robespierre was ill ?
4 - and last question : Saint-Just was a kind of warrior and he was sent more than a few times at the frontiers to make the war. Can someone tell me, please, where he was sent and when ? (the dates, please)
Thanks a lot !

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Do we get a prize or at least a biscuit?

1) The letter is dated 19th August 1790. From here (http://membres.multimania.fr/discours/), beware the horrible ads. Royet (http://www.royet.org/) also seems to get recommended here a fair bit.
2) Nope. As far as I'm aware their first meeting has never been recorded, although they probably met in the National Convention which opened on 21st Sept 1792.
3)Again scroll about here (http://membres.multimania.fr/discours/1794.htm) for the record of Robespierre being ill. He was also ill sometime between 6th November - 29th November 1792, and 19th April -6th May 1794. There's some debate about whether his absence from the CSP and convention from 4th July 1794 to 26th July 1794 were due to illness or political disillusionment (or both).
4) If you are interested in Saint-Just I really, really recommend you do some research into his time with the armies as it was a big part of his overall role in the revolution. I'd love to be able to help more with links but sadly I'm an anglophone only and almost all the english language works on him are total rubbish. Saint Just was a representative on mission to the army in Alsace from the end of October 1794 to early Jan 1794, and with the Army of the North from 28th April to the end of May and from 6-7 June to 29th June including the major victory of Fleurus. (The dates are from R.R. Palmer (http://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Who-Ruled-R-Palmer/dp/0691007616), who I'd recommend except recommending an English language textbook to a French speaker rather seems like recommending a skip on wheels to the owner of a porsche.