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| - | ''[[Lettres à Sophie]]'', is a collection of letters by [[Comte de Mirabeau]] first published in [[1792]]. They were originally published as "''Lettres originales de Mirabeau écrites au donjon de Vincennes pendant les années 1777, 78, 79 et 80''". | + | The '''Republic of the Seven United Netherlands''' (or "of the Seven United Provinces") (''Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden/Provinciën''; also '''Dutch Republic''' or '''United Provinces''' in short, ''Foederatae Belgii Provinciae'' or ''Belgica Foederata'' in Latin) was a [[Europe]]an [[republic]] between 1581 and 1795, in about the same location as the modern Kingdom of the [[Netherlands]], which is the [[successor state]]. |
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| - | "Sophie" was Marie Thérèse de Monnier; they had fallen in love despite that she was engaged to his colonel. This led to such scandal that his father obtained a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', and Mirabeau was imprisoned in the [[Ile de Ré]]. He escaped to [[Switzerland]], where Sophie joined him; they then went to the [[Dutch Republic|United Provinces]], where he lived by [[hack writer|hack work]]; meanwhile Mirabeau had been condemned to death at Pontarlier for seduction and abduction, and in May 1777 he was seized by the French police, and imprisoned by a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'' in the castle of [[Château de Vincennes|Vincennes]]. | + | |
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| - | The early part of his confinement is marked by his letters to [[Sophie]]. | + | |
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| - | '''''Les Lettres à Sophie''''' sont un recueil de la correspondance entretenue entre [[Honoré Gabriel Riqueti de Mirabeau|Mirabeau]], alors en captivité au [[donjon de Vincennes]], et [[Marie Thérèse Sophie Richard de Ruffey]]. Cette correspondance, où [[Jean-Charles-Pierre Lenoir]], lieutenant général de la police de Paris, joue un grand rôle, furent publiée après [[1789]] par [[Pierre Louis Manuel]], ancien administrateur du comte de Mirabeau. | + | |
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| - | * [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k890881 ''Lettres originales de Mirabeau : écrites du donjon de Vincennes, pendant les années 1777, 1778, 1779 et 1780, contenant tous les détails sur sa vie privée, ses malheurs et ses amours avec Sophie Ruffei, marquise de Monnier''], recueillies par P. Manuel, 1796 - 1797. | + | |
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The Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (or "of the Seven United Provinces") (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden/Provinciën; also Dutch Republic or United Provinces in short, Foederatae Belgii Provinciae or Belgica Foederata in Latin) was a European republic between 1581 and 1795, in about the same location as the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands, which is the successor state.
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