Partly-printed DS in French, signed “Robespierre,” one page both sides, 8 x 12.5, August 29, 1793. An extract from the Register of the Decrees of the Committee of Public Safety of the National Convention, in which the committee considers (translated) “that the surest means to repulse the tyrants and their satellites from the land of liberty is to confront them with a cavalry capable of preventing them from engaging in the plundering and devastation that they practice on the territory of the Republic.” The succeeding two articles authorize the attainment from Switzerland “the greatest possible quantity of horses for cavalry, dragoons, chasseurs, and hussars, by paying for them in cash” in the amount of “three hundred thousand livres in cash, both for the carrying out of the present decree and the payment of 17, 684.10 livres necessary in order to carry out sales.” Signed at the conclusion in ink by Robespierre, as well as seven other committee members, including Herault de Sechelles, Thuriot de la Rosiere, Bertrand Barere, Jeanbon Saint-Andre, C. A. Prieur, Pierre-Louis Prieur, and Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot. In fine condition, with two small areas of thin paper where single words have been eradicated. With Robespierre serving as its Parisian representative, the establishment of the Committee of Public Safety took its final form on September 6, 1793, a date that infamously marked the beginning to the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. A fascinating document boasting several signatures of the period’s ruthless de facto executive government as they prepared to stifle internal opponents and support French military forces.
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