SALLE Jean-Baptiste [, 1759 -, 1794], Conventionnel (Meurthe - Lot 84

SALLE Jean-Baptiste [, 1759 -, 1794], Conventionnel (Meurthe), proscribed with the Girondins, guillotined in Bordeaux. Autograph letter signed and addressed to Monsieur Granier. Paris, April 2, 1790; 3 pages in-4°. "I have received, sir, the letter you have done me the honor of writing to me. Despite my extreme inclination in the present circumstances to favor and encourage the operations of the Municipalities, I cannot however approve that of Rosières (the saltworks). It has obviously exceeded its powers, and whatever it may say about the institution of doctors .... Is just as important to support, if this expense, so small in itself, is just as useful as any other public expense. I say that she has overstepped her authority: it is not in Lorraine the Municipalities that have instituted the doctors ..., it is the legislator [...] there is more, it is that the Municipalities must not even influence the choice of these Doctors; it is up to the College of Doctors of ... to distribute these places in the competition. [...] If a municipality, on the pretext that it lacks revenue, were to go back on a concession it had made of communal property for the foundation of a hospital, and which would certainly be covered by letters patent, the law which would authorize the foundation and sanction the concession being henceforth the benefit not of the entire commune, but of the suffering portion of this commune, the Legislator ... could intervene by revoking its work".