Lot n° 73
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30 - 50
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FRENCH REVOLUTION / SCHOOL OF MARS / MILITARY TRAINING / PAR - Lot 73
FRENCH REVOLUTION / SCHOOL OF MARS / MILITARY TRAINING / PARIS (SABLONS). First Supplement to the Bulletin of the National Convention. Continuation of the Session of 6 Brumaire, Year III of the One and Indivisible French Republic (October 27, 1794). Poster (52 x 42 cm) printed in Paris by the Imprimerie Nationale, [1794]. Official Bulletin (No. 5) publishing the very important and lengthy report by Louis-Bernard Guyton de Morveau (on behalf of the Committee of Public Safety) concerning the organization, drills, discipline, and instruction at the École de Mars. Intended to provide young patriots with a rigorous military and republican education, this short-lived school was located on the Plaine des Sablons (Neuilly). The text details the students’ daily lives, their training in the use of weapons, their uniforms, the sanitary conditions of the camp, as well as the civic spirit instilled in this future military elite. Handwritten annotations, normal creases, brown stains, minor damage to the edges.
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