YEAR 2 (AIN & MONT-BLANC). SEPARATION OF PRISONERS OF BOTH S - Lot 298

YEAR 2 (AIN & MONT-BLANC). SEPARATION OF PRISONERS OF BOTH SEXES. "In the name of the French People, ALBITTE (Conventionnel de la Seine-Inférieure), Representative of the People, sent for the execution of the measures of Public Salvation, and the establishment of the Revolutionary Government, in the Departments of AIN and MONT-BLANC". Done at CHAMBERY (73) on 12 Ventôse Year 2 (2 March 1794). "Considering that the morals and the interest of the Republic are also wounded by the indecent and impolitic gathering of suspicious people of both sexes in the same detention house. Considering that it would be an outrage to the rigour of the Law, ... to condemn to detention children of either sex, against whom there can be no other grounds for reproach than that they were born of parents who were formerly noble... Considering that children belong to the Fatherland and that they are entitled to the benefits of the Revolution; that to take them away from the Republic... would be to neglect their education, or to expose them to total vitiation and corruption through the fury of prejudice and aristocratic vengeance, by leaving them with their detained parents; arrests....". - Printed in Chambéry, by the GORRIN Printing Office, father and son. Closet (47 x 33) State B.