YEAR 2 (AIN & MONT-BLANC). SEPARATION OF THE PRISONERS OF BO - Lot 333

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YEAR 2 (AIN & MONT-BLANC). SEPARATION OF THE PRISONERS OF BO - Lot 333
YEAR 2 (AIN & MONT-BLANC). SEPARATION OF THE PRISONERS OF BOTH SEXES. "In the name of the French People, ALBITTE (Conventional of the 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 the AIN and the MONT-BLANC. Done in 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 meeting of the suspected 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 to have been born of parents who were formerly noble. Considering that the children belong to the Fatherland 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 be totally vitiated and corrupted by the fury of prejudices and aristocratic vengeance, by leaving them with their detained parents; stops... " - Printed in Chambéry, by GORRIN, father and son. Placard (47 x 33) State B.
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