After 9 Thermidor, however, he helped release Général Etienne de la Bruyère, imprisoned in Strasbourg for alleged treason, obtaining from the Committee of Public Safety, on 22 Thermidor (10 August 1794) a decree thus conceived: The Committee of Public Safety adopts that the Major general La Bruyère, in a state of arrest, will be put at once to freedom.
Signed with the register Carnot, Bréard, Barrère, Billaud-Varenne, Prior, Lindet, Tallien, Thuriot, Treillard.
For extract: Barrère, Carnot, Treillard, EchasériauxThe young representative announced to him this good news by letter: Paris, 28 Thermidor, year 2 of the Republic One and Indivisible J.B. Lacoste, Representative of the People à La Bruyère Citizen, as I recognized always in you a true Republican and approved, I never lost sight of the fact you.
I requested from the Committee of Public Safety, your freedom; it has just been granted to me by a decree which I will send tomorrow to the Major general of Haut-Rhin.
If you come to Paris, you will always find me been willing to return on your account a testimony similar to your good behavior and the purity of your principles.