AIN MONT-BLANC. SEPARATION OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS. 179 - Lot 274

AIN MONT-BLANC. SEPARATION OF MALE AND FEMALE PRISONERS. 1794. "Au nom du Peuple Française, ALBITTE (Conventionnel de la Seine-Inférieure), Représentant du Peuple, envoyé pour l'exécution des mesures de Salut Public, et l'établissement du Gouvernement révolutionnaire, dans les Départements de l'AIN et du MONT-BLANC.". Fait à CHAMBERY (73) le 12 Ventôse An 2 (2 Mars 1794). "Considering that morals and the interests of the Republic are equally injured by the indecent and impolitic gathering of suspicious people of both sexes in the same house of detention. Considering that it would be an outrage to the rigor of the Law,... to condemn to detention children of both sexes, against whom there can be no other grounds for reproach than having been born of parents who were formerly noble. . Considering that children belong to the Patrie and that they are entitled to the benefits of the Revolution; that it would be to tear them away from the Republic..., to neglect their education, or to expose them to being totally vitiated and corrupted by the fury of prejudice and aristocratic vengeance, by leaving them with their detained parents; arrête...". - Printed in Chambéry, by GORRIN, père et fils. Cupboard (47 x 33) Condition B.