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Augustin FRÉCINE (1751-1804) conventionnel (Loir-et-Cher). Autograph manuscript, Au Nom du Peuple françois, 23 prairial II [11 June 1794]; 3 pages in-fol, with some erasures and corrections.
Proclamation to the discontented workers.
As "People's Representative in charge of the establishment of the Revolutionary Saltpeter Refinery", Frécine addresses the "Masons, Carpenters & Joiners, employed in the construction of the new workshop, House of Unity". He is forced, with surprise and pain, to suppress a movement of insubordination of the workers who demand "an increase of days, which would fall to the Republic". He regrets to have to leave "the language of fraternity to make you hear only that of the severe reason. And what! Citizens, the detestable spirit of greed that the national justice has just annihilated in the accapareurs, would thus have slipped into the pure soul of the sans-culottes? "He exhorts them to do their duty for the Fatherland, without letting themselves be perverted by the troublemakers, these counter-revolutionaries who want to sow disorder by baiting the poor workers with an increase in salary, with the aim of destroying the bonds of society; these counter-revolutionaries will be prosecuted by the Revolutionary Court and put under immediate surveillance...One minute of letter, Liège 30 fructidor II (September 16, 1794; 1 page in-4), as delegate of the Convention to the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse. Plus a L.S. from the Mayor of Paris Lescot-Fleuriot, 27 prairial II (June 15, 1794; 1 p. in-4), concerning Frécine's proclamation to repress the insubordination of the workers of the revolutionary refinery of saltpeteries.
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