Dumont to John Badollet, January 28, 1781
| Description: |
In this letter Dumont writes of a sad and broken Geneva, her citizens disheartened by the innocent magistrate’s exile (see the letter from 5th January, 1781). The number of assemblies is increasing as people try to understand the aristocratic party’s (the Natives’) systematic corruption of the Republic. The Count of Vergennes, France’s Foreign Minister, has coerced Bern and Zurich into sending mediators to Geneva to aid the Negatives and quell the rising unrest. In Dumont’s opinion, this is “a drop of water in the mouth of a volcano”. |
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| Origin: | 1781-01-28 |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll35/id/137 |
| Collection: |
Vincennes University Archives |
| Copyright: |
Digital image © 2015 Vincennes University. All rights reserved. |
| Geography: |
United States -- Indiana -- Knox County -- Vincennes -- January 28, 1781 |
| Subjects: |
Badollet, John, 1757-1837 -- Correspondence Switzerland -- History -- 1648-1789 Switzerland -- Politics and government -- 1648-1789 |
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