Still seeking letter- Robespierre's Oeuvres needed

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

I tried to go back and edit my last post and LJ flipped out on me, so I'm sorry about posting again on the same topic.

Success with Ruth Scurr!   Thanks, everyone!  She includes a small snippit of Robespierre's letter to Camille:

"May I remind Monsieur Camille Desmoulins that neither the beautiful eyes nor the beautiful attributes of charming Lucile are reasons for not announcing my work on the National Guard...There is not at this time anything more urgent or important than the organization of the National Guard."

I am still trying to find the whole letter though, but I now have the citation!

Robespierre (1910-67), vol. 3a, p. 100.

Does anyone happen to have a complete works of Robespierre lying around? ;-)

Comments

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

You found it! Sorry I didn't manage to find it in Ruth Scurr yesterday - I looked at the chapter on the wedding...

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Does anyone happen to have a complete works of Robespierre lying around? ;-)
I do, as a matter of fact... It would be fairly easy for me to type that letter out if you need it.

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

Please please please please!

Out of curiosity, do you have the whole 10 volume set, or just volume 3 with his letters? (As I recall you also very nicely typed me up his letter to Danton after Gabrielle died.)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Not only do I have the first 10 volumes, I have the eleventh as well--I've been getting two or three of them for my birthday for the past several years, so now I have all of them. Volume three is probably the single most useful volume though, especially given that so many of his speeches are online.

But here's the letter, as it appears there (idiosyncratic spelling and all):

LIX

Robespierre à Camille Desmoulins

Paris, 14 février 1791,

J’observe à Monsieur Camille Desmoulins que ni les beaux yeux ni les belles qualités de la charmante Lucile ne sont des raisons de ne point annoncer mon ouvrage sur les gardes nationales, qui lui a été remis et dont je lui envoie au besoin un exemplaire. Il n’est point dans ce moment d’objet plus pressant ni plus important que l’organisation des gardes nationales [1]. C’est ce que pensent du moins les citoïens de Marseille dont je joins ici un arrêté relatif à mon discours. Je prie Camille de ne point l’égarer, et de tacher de me renvoier aussi les lettres d’Avignon et les réponses que je lui ai remises.

ROBESPIERRE.

(Bibliothèque municipale de Nantes (nº 661.141). Reproduite par M. Ch. Vellay – Revue historique de la Révolution 1913. IV. 692-693).

[1] Il s’agit ici du discours de Robespierre sur l’organisation des gardes nationales. (B. N. : Le 29/1456) composé en 1790 et prononcé à l’Assemblée le 27 avril 1791. C. Desmoulins en fit l’éloge dans son journal le 21 février (nº 65).

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I like the date...

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even noticed that. XD;

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

What a hardass ;-).

[loremaula.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! And in original French!
Merci bien!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome, citoyenne.

[livviebway.livejournal.com]

Thank you thank you thank you! The internet is an amazing thing.

I'm impressed your friends/family are willing to go to the effort to track down individual volumes of Robespierres' Oeuvres for your birthday.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome; it is indeed.

To tell the truth, they didn't have to (I'm not sure they would have been able to track them down). I just sent them the links. ^^;

[ink-in-a-teacup.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I add my thanks as well! Merci! I had not previously seen this letter.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

And you too are quite welcome. :D