Business Barrau - Solages

the Business Barrau - Solages . File sior and lady of Barrau born from Solages. 1765 - 1790

Lettre de cachets

To the XVIIIe century, in Paris, the department of the lettre de cachets is allotted in a Secretary of State depend on the Minister of Justice: Jerome Phélypeaux, count de Pontchartrain; Louis Phélypeaux, count then duke of Vrillière; Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes in 1775; Louis-Auguste the Wet cooper, baron de Breteuil, of 1777 with the French revolution.

In province, in the examination of the applications the Intendant S are based on the opinion of the subdelegated .

The Business

“The Business of Solages can take row among the most famous stories of lettre de cachets , between that of Latude and that of the Marquis de Sade. And it impassioned almost on the same basis many scholars, of researchers and curious. It is interesting initially by the mystery which still planes on all this dark machination; this mystery can it light somewhat in the light of the parts of the Files of the Haute-Garonne, which we publish, after, completely? It shows us in any case, on the sharp one, the moderating and enlightened action of one subdelegated intelligent, Ginesty, honest and penetrating lawyer; ineffective action, of the remainder, because it appears to encounter powerful preventions, with this kind of inertia which the administration opposes when it realizes of a heavy fault or a great injustice, and also with a complicated network of intrigues. ”

The marriage

By contract of May 22nd 1759, lord Jean Antoine de Barrau, knight, Co-lord of Trémouilles, lord of Caplongue, and other places, takes for wife, damoiselle Marie Francoise Charlotte Pauline de Solages, girl top and powerful lord lord Antoine Paulin de Solages, knight, Marquis of Carmaux, lord and baron of Maussans and Rouffiac, Saint-Beno4it cheese lord, Puellat, Ferradour, Guimerie, and other places, and of feue lady Francoise Marie Guionne of Castling-Bouillac. The groom is 22 years old and the bride 19 years belongs to the one of the more big families of the Rouergue and the Albigensian. Castling-Bouillac are allowed with the Honneurs of the Court in 1787.

Facts

In 1765, six years after its marriage, Pauline de Barrau is stopped by lettre de cachet on the request of his/her husband and his father. It is then locked up with the convent of Lisle-on-Tarn in Albigensian. Two years later, it is transferred to the monastery from the nuns from the Third Order from Saint-François with Toulouse.

On the request of its family it is given in freedom in 1777, but as of 1782, it is new control with the convent, that of Notre-Dame of Saint-Affrique, in Rouergue. In 1786, after being threatened of internment again in Toulouse, it is finally led in a convent of the town of Castres, in Languedoc.

The brother of Pauline, the Count Hubert de Solages, is him at the same time as stopped by lettre de cachet as his sister. He is initially locked up with the Château of Tool bags close to Castrate, then in 1767, in the Fort of Brescou to broad of the course of Agde. In 1771, it is taken along to the Château of Pierre-Encize, with the doors of Lyon, from where it escapes. In 1782, it is transferred to the Château from Vincennes, then it is finally locked up with the Bastille, with Paris, in 1784. It occupies there a housing close to that of the marquis de Sade. It occupies its days while playing of the violin, while reading and while writing. July 14th 1789, at the time of the storming of the Bastille, it is released and led by the Parisian population to the Town hall where it is congratulated by the municipality which finds “a noble and imposing figure to him”.

Several reasons were called upon for these two arrests: For Pauline, bad conduct and disorder, bad companies, debt, “mental derangement”,…. For Hubert, “crimes atrocious”, “action monstrous” (also related to the fact that Hubert had helped his sister to escape from the residence of her husband),…

Reality is however more mysterious with problems of dowry, of heritage, family influences and reversals, of threat of revenge,…

The mystery

Several questions still remain unanswered nowadays: is

Which the real share of each reason called upon at the origin of this business?
For which reasons and in which circumstances proceeded “the removal” of Pauline de Barrau? is
Which this revenge about which speaks Pauline de Barrau?
Which was the exact role of the royal administration?

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