NÎMES. L.A.S. by the National Agent Simon Peschaire, Nîmes 2 - Lot 175

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NÎMES. L.A.S. by the National Agent Simon Peschaire, Nîmes 2 - Lot 175
NÎMES. L.A.S. by the National Agent Simon Peschaire, Nîmes 26 ventôse II (16 March 1794); 2 pages in-4. Protest against the celebration of Sundays by the people of Nîmes. Whereas "the laws have consecrated the decadi as the only day of the repôs, [...] I have the pain to see that one still celebrates Sunday as under the old regime, [...] the municipality does not do its duty, [...] the municipal police is of a weakness and a carelessness which is reprehensible and would become criminal if it were carried to a degree more". He reminds that the law must be applied, which punishes "the prevaricating and negligent magistrate" .... He notes that "fanaticism engages the craftsman to abandon his workshop to follow the bad example that the muscadins and other enemies of our revolution give him to adorn himself and to go to strut as one made formerly the day which one called Sunday"...
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