IMPRESSIONS DE MALASSIS. - Set of 70 printed... - Lot 170 - Rossini

IMPRESSIONS DE MALASSIS. - Set of 70 printed pieces, in sheets. Exceptional collection of 68 pieces printed on the presses of François-Charles Malassis during the French Revolution (year II and year III), including 67 in-4 decrees of the National Convention and an in-folio placard (Extrait du registre des délibérations du Conseil général du département de l'Orne, du 7e jour du second mois de l'an II). Among the most interesting documents: decrees on orphans and hospices, assignats, the military criminal court, confiscation of goods shipped to Commune-affranchie (Lyon), deposits of diamonds, precious stones, pearls and other jewelry, paintings to be executed at the Gobelins manufactory, botanical gardens and the rare plants found there, preparation of national library catalogs, etc. Also attached to this meeting are 2 folio leaflets printed before and after the Revolution: Exercice de Géographie qui se fera par les Écoliers de seconde du Collège royal d'Alençon (printed by Malassis jeune, 1777), and Ordonnance de police portant défense de se réunir en groupes devant les portes d'entrée des églises, dated October 18, 1824 (printed by Malassis-Cussonnière, 1824). François-Charles Malassis de la Cussonnière (1743-1829), a lawyer at Parliament, was established as printer for the Orne department in 1791. At the bottom of the official publications he was commissioned to print, he removed the particle from his name and signed Malassis-Cussonnière or François-Charles Malassis as a precaution. He first occupied Grande-Rue in Alençon, then moved his printing works to rue du Bercail, opposite Notre-Dame church, renamed Temple de la raison. Auguste Poulet-Malassis, publisher of Baudelaire's Fleurs du mal, is the heir to this famous dynasty of Alençon printers. An ensemble of great importance for the history of printing in Alençon during the Revolution.