TALLIEN, Thérésa Cabarrus, dite Madame (1773-1835)

Autograph letter signed “Thérésia de Cabarrus” to an ungrateful brother
S.l, 3 floréal an 9 (23 April 1801), 1 page 1/4 in-8

You are inaccessible to all small considerations and all major prevention”

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TALLIEN, Thérésa Cabarrus, dite Madame (1773-1835)

Autograph letter signed “Thérésia de Cabarrus” to an ungrateful brother
S.l, 3 floréal an 9 (23 April 1801), 1 page 1/4 in-8

Very nice letter from the Thermidorian muse about a recommendation


“Il faut être bien malheureux pour n’avoir près de vous frère ingrat d’autre recommandation que la mienne, et bien compter sur votre extrême obligeance pour croire qu’elle ne nuira pas au succès que l’on sollicite… Je l’ai dit et répetté au Cit. Denarbonne mais en vain, il accuse ma bonne volonté, et prétend avec le public que vous ne refusez jamais de rendre service, que vous êtes inaccessible à toutes les petites considérations et à toutes les grandes préventions, qui naissent des circonstances, enfin il a exigé de ma constante amitié pour vous et de l’estime réelle que je vous ai vouée, que je vous trace quelques lignes en sa faveur : il prétend que c’est un homâge de plus rendu à votre caractère et cette raison me détermine à vous envoyer ce griffonnâge. Veuillez bien l’excuser frère ingrat et croire que ceci ne pourra attérer les sentiments dont ce billet vous offre l’assurance et la preuve.
Thérésia Cabarrus”


Theresa Cabarrus, known as Madame Tallien, is an aristocrat who adhered to Enlightenment ideas, but when the Jacobins establish terror, she had to flee Paris. Like many of her friends Girondins, she was arrested but, the representative of the Bordeaux Convention, Jean Lambert Tallien, asked to meet her and later on arranged for her release. Having become his companion, she later used his influence with him and managed to save many Bordeaux from the guillotine, hence his nickname “Our Lady of Good Relief”. In July 1794, on suspicion of softness, Tallien was summoned to Paris and Theresa was arrested. As she goes to be guillotined, she urges her lover to act, calling him a coward. He then decided to enter into a conspiracy against Robespierre and, on 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) he took a decisive part in the assembly in the confrontation that brought down the great revolutionary. Theresa becomes “Our Lady of Thermidor.”

Raymond-Jacques-Marie de Narbonne-Pelet (1771-1855) was a 19th-century French diplomat and politician. He emigrated with his family in 1791 and returned to France during the Consulate. He was appointed peer of France in 1815 in the early hours of the Second Restoration.

We attach : A very interesting autograph letter signed by J. Brown about the fall of Robespierre (9 Thermidor), written on 28 Thermidor of year 2 (1794).