Letters to/from Du Roveray
Two Letters; one to Du Roveray from Leright mentioning letters to be sent immediately to England via James Crawford and a letter to Nepean from Du Roveray concerning the need of a passport from Lord Grenville as he was naturalized in Ireland from 1783. He also mentions the invasion of Helvetick.
Administrative / biographical background
Jacques-Antoine Du Roveray (1747-1814) the son of a merchant, studied at the Geneva Academy, qualifying as an advocate in 1771. Appointed public prosecutor in 1779, he was dismissed in 1780, at the request of France, following the publication of a "remonstrance" against French intervention in the internal affairs of Geneva. Exiled in perpetuity (1782), he took refuge in Neuchâtel, then in Paris where he was part of the group of Genevans gathered around Mirabeau. Returning to Geneva in 1789, he was a member of the Council of Two Hundred (1790), then a member of the National Assembly in 1793. Condemned to death by the revolutionary tribunal in 1794, he took refuge in England.
Administrative / biographical background
Jacques-Antoine Du Roveray (1747-1814) the son of a merchant, studied at the Geneva Academy, qualifying as an advocate in 1771. Appointed public prosecutor in 1779, he was dismissed in 1780, at the request of France, following the publication of a "remonstrance" against French intervention in the internal affairs of Geneva. Exiled in perpetuity (1782), he took refuge in Neuchâtel, then in Paris where he was part of the group of Genevans gathered around Mirabeau. Returning to Geneva in 1789, he was a member of the Council of Two Hundred (1790), then a member of the National Assembly in 1793. Condemned to death by the revolutionary tribunal in 1794, he took refuge in England.
Record Details
| Item reference: | NEP/9/28; MS1989/006 |
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| Catalogue Section: | Personal collections |
| Level: | ITEM |
| Extent: | folder (2 letters) |
| Date made: | 1799; 1869 |
| Creator: | Nepean, Evan |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
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