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CONVENTION NATIONALE. 13 posters, 1793-1794; in-fol....

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CONVENTION NATIONALE. 13 posters, 1793-1794; in-fol. or large folio (spotting or splitting of qqs posters). Decrees of the Convention. Impressions of Saintes (then Xantes), Saint-Jean d'Angély (then Angély-Boutonne).April-May 1793: division by lots of former royal castles and religious buildings, judgments of counter-revolutionary rioters, independence and sovereignty of France, officers' uniforms, cancellation of leases granted by orders of knighthood and by colleges and universities, proclamation "to the citizens of troubled departments", etc.An II (2nd month-germinal): delivery of debt securities, "qui supprime les dénominations de ville, bourg et village, et y substitue celle de Commune", increase in the price of lead, introduction of silks and fabrics, relief for bishops and priests "qui abdiquent leur état", new accounting system, dispatch of funds to the Trésorerie nationale, search for property belonging to the Republic.12 vendémiaire III: decree concerning grain threshing and requisitioning.