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Auction: 315 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 537

French Revolution: Document Collection - A fascinating quartet of Documents Signed, all from the later revolutionary period and the days leading up to Napoleon´s rise to power. Features a partly engraved Document Signed by Voulland, Legendre, and other members of the Committee of General Security, Paris, 30 thermidor, an II (August 17, 1794). The document concerns a petition from the minister of the Republic of Geneva concerning two prisoners that the Committee has arrested who are being held in Luxembourg. Just a month earlier, the Committee had secured the execution of Maximilien Robespierre, bringing an end to the Reign of Terror and establishing its own somewhat more moderate rule. With a beautiful partly engraved DS, 2 pages, 14 germinal, an 5 (April 3 1797), on stationery of the 2nd Division of the Army of the North, from the president of the Council of War. Also with a document from the Municipality of Chaumont, Haute-Marne, 9 pluviose, an III (January 28, 1795); and one from the 7th Military Division, 13 fructidor, an VI (August 30, 1798), requesting a military commander for the department. All in VG condition or better.

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