FRENCH REVOLUTION / CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERGY / REFRA - Lot 263

FRENCH REVOLUTION / CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERGY / REFRACTORY PRIESTS / RENNES / ILLE-ET-VILAINE / BRITTANY. Law Concerning the Oath of Preachers. Enacted in Paris, March 27, 1791. In Rennes, from the Press of J. Robiquet, Printer for the Department of Ille-et-Vilaine. Folio-sized placard (dimensions: 46 x 35 cm) printed in two columns separated by a typographic frieze, adorned with an engraved vignette bearing the coat of arms of the Department of Ille-et-Vilaine at the top (“The Nation, the Law, and the King”). An important text from the revolutionary religious crisis, reiterating that preachers are counted among the public officials subject to the obligation to take the oath (according to the decree of November 27, 1790) and prohibiting them from preaching in any church without prior justification for having taken the oath. Published locally in Rennes on April 11, 1791, by the Directory of the Department of Ille-et-Vilaine (signed Jaques Jan, etc.). Normal creases from folding, browned paper, tears and missing sections along the edges, traces of earlier restoration with adhesive tape.