Jean Sylvain BAILLY (1736-guillotiné 1793)... - Lot 30 - Rossini

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Jean Sylvain BAILLY (1736-guillotiné 1793)... - Lot 30 - Rossini
Jean Sylvain BAILLY (1736-guillotiné 1793) scholar and astronomer, first Mayor of Paris. L.S. co-signed by Pierre Manuel (prosecutor of the Commune) and M.L.F. Duport-Dutertre (substitute prosecutor), Paris July 6, 1790; 1 1/2 pages in-fol. Crisis of housing before the festival of the Federation: "of the masters of furnished hotels abuse of the need where some of our brothers of province are to rent at an exorbitant price the rooms which they can have need. It is with pain that we see citizens taking advantage of such a circumstance to satisfy only their own interest. Such conduct carries with it a distressing character of immorality. It is unfortunate that at the moment when all the French are going to unite by a solemn oath, where one should only listen to the feeling of the most intimate fraternity, there are some citizens who let themselves be led by the love of gain. It is necessary to repress such abuses... One joined a printed National Confederation. Adresse des Citoyens de Paris à tous les François (juin 1790, in-4 de 12 p., galerie de ver); plus a certificate of participation for Peyrouze, deputy of the dep. of Drôme (July 2, 1790).
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