REVOLUTION. 1791. CHARENTE. "Loi relative aux Gratifications - Lot 176

REVOLUTION. 1791. CHARENTE. "Loi relative aux Gratifications et secours à accorder aux ARTISTES." (Engineers). given in Paris on September 12, 1791. N°1269. vignette. "Distribution des Récompenses nationales (en 12 articles ). "It will be distributed a sum of 300 000 L,.. in gratifications help to the Artists who by their discoveries, their works their researches in the useful Arts, will have deserved to have share in the national rewards. Artists whose machines imported from abroad, or newly built according to the requests of the administration of trade, would have been destroyed during popular disorders... will be compensated...". Printed in ANGOULÈME, by BARGEAS. Cupboard (53 x 42) Condition A.