[MANUSCRIT] Pierre Charles ROLLAND (Mâcon 1818-1876). Mayor - Lot 7

[MANUSCRIT] Pierre Charles ROLLAND (Mâcon 1818-1876). Mayor of Mâcon in 1847 and 1848, great friend of Lamartine. Autograph manuscript, unsigned, on the re-establishment of the Empire, entitled "Souvenirs personnels des évènements du deux décembre 1852". Manuscript of 50 folio pages, written in black ink, with erasures and overwriting. In this account, Pierre Rolland recalls in great detail the events of December 2-14, 1852: "There was still in this mansuétude of old Bonapartist fetishists and of that immoral admiration which spirits of an unenlightened morality have for success and strength. One could hear murmurs here and there = I still have confidence in Napoleon! or: has he properly escamotés them! On the boulevards Montmartre, des Italiens, Bonne-Nouvelle and Poissonnière, things looked very different. There, the youth of commerce and schools, artists, the bourgeoisie at its most energetic and intelligent, gathered as if for a general meeting. The indignation was deep, the language bitter, the threats virulent." From December 4 to 14, he travels to Chalon, where he also describes the population's reaction to the coup announcement, and the arrival of insurgent reinforcements from Cluny, among other places. He returned to Paris on December 14, "having seen M. de Lamartine write a noble letter to his creditors, asking for their approval for the loss he had suffered as a result of the suppression of the Conseiller du peuple and the Pays républicain. The indefatigable fighter had just made with us the plan for his new publication the Civilisateur to instruct the people and prepare at least for the future if the present had to be renounced." He concludes his manuscript as follows: "As an afflicted but not distraught spectator of such things, the details of which I note for use in my memoirs in later years, following my habit I attach myself to the vanquished (...) I go to Lamartine's, to Mme Hugo's, whom I find alone at wakes with her daughter, to Mme Sand Maurice's (...) I have no more reproaches for these poor women who have in prison or exile father, husband, son, brothers, all the men of their house." A very interesting and poignant manuscript on these historic events. Expert : Cabinet Valleriaux contact@valleriaux.com Please ask for the condition reports before the sale: they are not included in the files.