Anecdotes secrètes sur le 18 Fructidor, et nouveaux mémoires des déportés à la Guiane, écrits par eux-mêmes, et faisant suite au journal de Ramel, contenant de nouveaux détails sur leur transport à la Guiane, et leur séjour dans cette colonie, l'arrivée de la frégate la Décade, ayant à bord 193 déportés, la mort de Rovère, Lavilleheurnois, Brothier, Gibert-Desmolières, d'Havelange, Letellier, etc., et tout ce qui s'est passé à la Guiane jusqu'au 24 Ventôse an VII. Auxquels on a ajouté une nouvelle relation de l'évasion de Pichegru, Barthélemy, Ramel, etc

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This is a collection compiled by publisher Giguet containing letters and memoirs concerning the deportation to the penal colonies of French Guiana of numerous persons occupying the highest ranks of the Republic at the time of the French Revolution.
The assembled pieces refer to the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor fomented under the Directory by the republicans against the moderates and royalists, then holding a majority in the councils, particularly the legislative ones.
Many deputies, priests and journalists were then arrested and deported, after Paris had been occupied militarily; Lazare Carnot, who had been warned of his arrest, managed to escape in time.