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Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2)

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Antoine de Lessart, Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs (1791-2), was accused of corresponding with the émigrés and the emperor, tried before the High Court of Orleans for treason, and murdered in the September massacres of 1792.

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