Antoine-François MOMORO (1750-1794) printer,... - Lot 129 - Rossini

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Antoine-François MOMORO (1750-1794) printer,... - Lot 129 - Rossini
Antoine-François MOMORO (1750-1794) printer, "First printer of liberty", influential member of the Club des Cordeliers, organizer of the Culte de la Raison, guillotined as a Hebertist. P.A.S. as secretary of the Section du Théatre-Français, March 21, 1791; 2 1/2 pages in-fol. with vignette and letterhead of the Section du Théatre-Français. Deliberation of the Section reacting violently against the ordinance of the Municipality forbidding the manufacture and the carrying of weapons, judging it "unconstitutional" and "prejudicial to liberty [...] the order given to the furriers, merchants, and others, to break within a week the sword rods or sabers that they will have chezeux, is a manifest violation of the right of property. [...] freedom acquired by arms can only be sustained by the same means, and one will never conceive how municipal officers have dared to allow themselves to use public force to disarm free citizens, especially at a time when our enemies threaten us, and do not despair of using the most perfidious maneuvers to bring about a counter-revolution, by fomenting division among citizens.The Section considers that this ordinance is a forfeit, and that it is necessary to ask for the dismissal of the officers who made it; the mode of administration of the municipal police force is "unconstitutional and contrary to the principles of freedom"... Rare.Ancienne collection Dubrunfaut.
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