FRENCH REVOLUTION / LYON / RETALIATION / SAINT-DOMINGUE. Sup - Lot 63

FRENCH REVOLUTION / LYON / RETALIATION / SAINT-DOMINGUE. Supplement to the Bulletin of the National Convention. Continuation of the Session of April 24, the second year of the One and Indivisible Republic (April 13, 1794). Poster (53 x 43 cm) printed in Paris by the Imprimerie Nationale, [1794]. Official Bulletin (No. 5) publishing the decrees and reports from mid-Germinal, Year II. Contains an important letter from the people’s representatives Reverchon, Laporte, and Maignet, sent from Commune-Affranchie (Lyon), announcing the conclusion of the Revolutionary Military Commission’s judgments and summarizing the executions: “The heads of one thousand eight hundred and forty-four rebels from the infamous city of Lyon have been struck down by the sword of the law.” Also includes a decree granting aid to the widow of Jean-Baptiste Silvy, a captain in Saint-Domingue who died as a result of the fire at Le Cap. Handwritten annotations from the period in the margins. Normal creases from handling, damage along the edges, slight red marks, small text loss