REVOLUTION. 1791. CHARENTE. "Law relating to the Gratuities - Lot 216

REVOLUTION. 1791. CHARENTE. "Law relating to the Gratuities and Assistance to be Granted to ARTISTS." (Engineers). Given at Paris, September 12, 1791. N°1269. vignette. "Distribution of National Rewards (in 12 articles). "It will be distributed a sum of 300,000 L,... in gratuities & aid to Artists who by their discoveries, their works & their research in the useful Arts, will have deserved to have a share in the national rewards. Artists whose machines imported from abroad, or newly built according to the demands of the administration of commerce, would have been destroyed in the event of popular unrest... will be compensated...". Printed in ANGOULAR, at BARGEAS. Cupboard (53 x 42) State A.