"BUREAU DES PORTS DE PARIS. GARDE NATIONALE PARISIENNE SOLDÉE". Signed LEBRUN-TONDU President & PACHE, members of the provisional Executive Council. Paris January 15, 1793 - Military Pension for Bernard CAPPERON Sergeant-Major, 24 years of service in the Troops of line and in the Battalion of the Guard of the ports - 1p in-folio in part printed. - LEBRUN-TONDU (Pierre-Marie-Henry Tondu dit) Printer and Minister, President of fortnight of the Executive Council at the time of the execution of King Louis XVI, had to sign this order, on January 20, 1793 - PACHE (Jean-Nicolas) Minister of the war of October 18, 1792 to February 2, 1793, Mayor of Paris

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