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Gazette Of The United States & Evening Advertiser
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
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On November 7, 1793, the French National Convention received reports from representatives at the Toulon siege, noting improving prospects in the south amid enemy sea control. A young patriot, whose aristocratic father was guillotined for treason, renounced his family and sought national adoption, earning the Convention's applause.
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NATIONAL CONVENTION,
November 7.
TOULON.
The Representatives of the people before Toulon, wrote from Ollioules on the 24th October, that prospects in the South began to brighten; that the requisitions of the neighboring departments, and the forces that were employed in besieging Lyons, were absolutely necessary, the enemy being masters of the sea, and, therefore, enabled to procure all the reinforcement they stood in need of. These representatives sent also another letter to the Convention, written by a young defender of his country, whose father had been condemned to death: "I address myself to you," he says, "who are the fathers of the country: I belong to a family who are as aristocratic as I am patriotic; it has renounced me—from this I derive honor. I understand that my father is to be guillotined to-day—He has betrayed his country, and therefore deserves punishment—I do not regret it.
"No good Republican ought to acknowledge as parents those who are not like himself, Republicans—I request that I may become the adopted child of the nation."
The Convention applauded his conduct.
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Toulon
Event Date
November 7
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father guillotined for treason; young defender's request for national adoption applauded by convention
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Representatives reported from Ollioules on 24th October that southern prospects were brightening, with necessary requisitions and forces from Lyons siege due to enemy sea mastery. A young defender, son of a condemned traitor, wrote renouncing his aristocratic family, accepting his father's guillotining, and requesting adoption by the nation as a Republican.