Lazare HOCHE (1768-1797) general. Autograph Apostille (4 lin - Lot 221

Lazare HOCHE (1768-1797) general. Autograph Apostille (4 lines) at the head of a L.A.S. from the lawman Boissy, Paris 30 floréal IV (May 19, 1796), addressed to General Hoche, General-in-Chief of the Army of the West; 6 pages in-4, address. Lawyer Boissy, "charged by state with the defense of citizens", requests the removal from the list of émigrés of Louis-Isaac-Auguste Marconnaye, a merchant, who has just been arrested: "Your humanity and justice are a sure guarantee that you will not lightly pronounce on the fate of a citizen who has a host of authentic documents to prove his innocence and non-emigration"... He sends him a memorandum (attached) in which he details the documents and pleads his client's innocence. Hoche noted at the top of the first page: "Reply that the emigrant Count de Marconnai colonel of the Warhen regt was shot by judgment of a military council".