[FRENCH REVOLUTION ] - Lot 103

[FRENCH REVOLUTION ] Important set of documents, printed or manuscript, and correspondence, 1790-1800. More than 200 pieces, most with headers, interesting and beautiful revolutionary vignettes. Prints and posters: "Adresse des citoyens de Paris à tous les François" (May 1790), petitions and addresses to the National Assembly and then to the National Convention, excerpts from registers of regional administrative councils, minutes, patents of merchants, report of an escapee, act of francization of merchant ships, n°230 of the Courrier de l'Égalité (April 5, 1793), penal code concerning the military discipline, sale of national goods (of which properties having belonged to the duke Lévis de Mirepoix, capitulation of the place of Ypres (June 1794), measures concerning the saltpetre and the saltpetre workers, proclamation after the assassination of the plenipotentiaries at the congress of Rastadt, celebration of anniversary of the 18 Fructidor, etc. Printed documents or extracts of minutes (letters patent of the king and laws of the National Assembly), March 1790 - September 19, 1792: division into departments, replacement of the government (August 10, 1792), creation of the provisional executive council, money put at the disposal of the aforementioned council (August 28, with Danton's signature and royal stamp in red ink), suppression of the life annuities granted to Louis XVI and his brother, etc. Decrees or bulletins of the National Convention, 1792-1793: proclamation of the Republic one and indivisible on September 25, 1792, measures concerning powders and saltpeter (with a poster of 1703 attached), organization of the armies of the Republic, manufacture of assignats, suppression of lotteries, arms manufactures, property of emigrants, insurrection of May 31, 1793, the creation of the tricolor flag, the brigandage in Brittany (with letters of members of the Breton Association, 1874-1881), law on the manufacture of salt, with a report to the National Convention "on the political situation of the Republic" by Robespierre (27 brumaire II) and a report on the capture of Charleroi by Barère (7 messidor II). Various signed documents, partly printed: reports and arrests, passes, passports, certificates of residence or of non-emigration, of services, appointments, answers to requests, declaration of civism, lifting of seals, permits to carry weapons, etc. One notes in particular the signatures of the ministers Louis de Narbonne, Pierre Lebrun, Barthélémy Schérer, or of the prefects Dupin or Dubois. Correspondence emanating from various administrations, civil or military. Among the hundred or so letters, let us quote in particular the signatures of Barbé-Barbois, Bénézech, Cambacérès, A.-G. Camus, Duport-Dutertre, Garat, Hérault de Séchelles, La Revellière-Lépeaux, Merlin de Douai, Nompère de Champagny, Reubell, those of the generals Cafarelli, Canclaux, Colaud, Lavalette, Liebert, Pichegru, etc., or that of the duke of Croy-d'Havré (Madrid, 1798).