AN 2. (AVEYRON. THRESHING GRAIN). "Extract from the register - Lot 322

AN 2. (AVEYRON. THRESHING GRAIN). "Extract from the registers of the deliberations of the District of RODEZ, meeting of 11 Thermidor Year 2 (July 29, 1794). "The Administrators of the District of RODEZ, considering that in the present moment, the citizens can only count on their own resources as regards subsistence, that the harvest of this year being most abundant, is already raised; that it is time to proceed to the threshing of the grains, so that the citizens can provide themselves and provide at the same time the supply of the markets; Considering that malevolent people, spurred on by a scoundreliness which characterizes true counter-revolutionaries, had the inhumanity and barbarity to bury their grain last year, with the intention of starving their fellow men; that such criminal manoeuvres must shake up all the surveillance of the friends of the public good...». Printed in RODEZ, at DEVIC, Imprimeur du Département de l'Aveyron. Cupboard (42 x 36) State A