MIRABEAU HONORÉ COMTE DE: (1749-1791)

MIRABEAU HONORÉ COMTE DE: (1749-1791)

MIRABEAU HONORÉ COMTE DE: (1749-1791) Honore Gabriel Riqueti. French Writer, nobleman and Orator, a leader of the early stages of the French Revolution. President of the National Constituent Assembly 1791. A successful orator who became the voice of the people. A good autograph letter written during is exile in England, A.L., one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Sir Gilbert Elliot Baronet, at Westminster, in French. Mirabeau states `Mon ami, nous pensons Baynes et moi qu´il serait bon que tu m´envoyasses ta lettre pour St. Leger à son frère le colonel en le priant de la faire partir par le corrier; de cette manière les bienveillans ne pourront pas douter que la lettre ne vienne de toi. Prière instante à toi, mon cher ami, de passer chez Sir Robert Herries et de lui demander en mon nom et au sien de certifier que la relation insérée dans le Morning Post ci-joint est vraie dans tous ses points...´ (Translation: "My friend, Baynes and I think that it would be good if you send your letter for St. Leger to his brother the Colonel, asking him to send it by courier; in this way the well-wishers will not be able to doubt that the letter comes from you. I pray you, my dear friend, to call Sir Robert Herries and ask him in my name and his to certify that the list inserted in the attached Morning Post copy is true in all its points...") Mirabeau further organizes the way to meet with Baynes, and concludes with a Latin statement `Vale et me ama´ ("Goodbye and love you") The letter has been lightly affixed to its left edge to a slightly larger 8vo card. G

During Mirabeau´s exile n England, he was soon admitted into the best Whig literary and political society of London through his old school friend Gilbert Elliot, who had become a leading Whig member of parliament.

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 1st Earl of Minto (1751-1814), known as Sir Gilbert Elliott, 4th Baronet until 1797, and the Lord Minto from 1797 to 1813. British Diplomat and Politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1776-95. He was Viceroy the short-lived Anglo-Corsican Kingdom 1793-96, and Governor-General of India 1807-13.
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