REBELLION of MARSEILLE (13) - Address: "The Administrators o - Lot 355

REBELLION of MARSEILLE (13) - Address: "The Administrators of the Department of BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE, to the NATIONAL CONVENTION" made in Marseilles on 8 Vendémiaire year 3 (Sept. 29, 1794) - "Representatives, of the Events, similar to those of 9 THERMIDOR, have just taken place in MARSEILLE on 5 Vendémiaire... MARSEILLE was going to find itself a second time in the horrors of the civil war, when the Representatives AUGUIS & SERRES arrived there... THE DRAINING AT THE PLACE; & the mutineers are arrested... The purified Administration of the BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE department swears that it recognizes only the Convention as the center of the authority that the Sovereign People has entrusted to it; that its cry will always be: VIVE LA REPUBLIQUE, une & indivisible! Long live the National Convention! Long live the Brave Defenders of the Motherland! Long live the Popular Societies! Peace to the Cottages; & War to the death to the Aristocrats, Brigands, Thieves & Crowned..." - Vignette - Printed in MARSEILLE, by P.A. FAYET, Imprimeur de la Nation & du Département, rue du Pavillon. Cupboard (45 x 35) Condition A