GARD. 1796. "Proclamation from Hilarion PUGET, Commanding Ge - Lot 348

GARD. 1796. "Proclamation from Hilarion PUGET, Commanding General of the 9th Military Division, to the young men of the Requisition & Volunteers who have not joined their Battalions." "An Order of the Government Commissioner FRÉRON, carries: As of 25 Pluviôse (Year 4, February 14, 1796) the Military Commanders will have represented by their parents the certificates of the Volunteers or Young Men of the Requisition, which attest to their arrival at their Battalions; failing which, they will garrison more or less considerably with the said parents." "As head of the police force of this Department, I will be in charge of this decree. Young citizens..., you will no longer wish to be cowardly Sybarites; you will increase the ranks of our brothers in arms; you will share the laurels they have enjoyed since the beginning of the Revolution, fighting for the triumph of Liberty and the establishment of the Republic; you will finally contribute to forcing the enemy to ask us for peace..." Printed in Nimes, from the National Printing Office of J.B. GUIBERT & Company, Printers of the Gard Department; Hilarion Paul François Welcome from the Puget de Barbentane, Marquis de Barbentane, (1754 -1828) in Paris, is a French General of the Revolution and the Empire. Deputy to the States-General in 1789. Cupboard (45,5 x 34,5) State A.