COMMUNE DE PARIS. 3 P.S. or L.S. by THIBOUST and GILLET, pro - Lot 196

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COMMUNE DE PARIS. 3 P.S. or L.S. by THIBOUST and GILLET, pro - Lot 196
COMMUNE DE PARIS. 3 P.S. or L.S. by THIBOUST and GILLET, provisional administrators of the "Regenerated Police", 24 fructidor II (September 10, 1794), to the citizens composing the Commission of subsistances; 5 pages in-fol. or in-4, headings Commune of Paris, vignettes (bound by bread to seal). Sending of the extract of three reports concerning the public tranquility, with invitation to advise the means of "calming the concern of the people on the shortage of some objects of first need"... The police commissioners of the Section of the Fraternity report complaints of the firemen "not to have candle or oil to make up for it in sufficient quantity" (19 fructidor)... Officers of the peace note that "the citizens from day to day with the approach of the yver fear to miss subsistances of first need" (22 fructidor), and note, especially among rentiers and women of workmen, "murmurs and complaints on the difficulty of obtaining things of first need, like oil, butter, candle, soap &c" (23 fructidor)...
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