Didier JOURDEUIL (1760-1800) member of the Paris Commune, assistant to the Minister of War, deported to Cayenne. P.A.S., co-signed by Armand-Hubert LECLERC and Pierre J. DUPLAIN as "administrators in the Department of Police and Public Safety", Paris November 9, 1792, to the Section de la Butte des Moulins; 1 page in-4, headed Commune de Paris. Concerning a denunciation: "it is necessary, for the affixing of the seals at the Emigrants to address to the Department, place of the pikes". [Leclerc will be guillotined on March 24, 1794 as an accomplice of Hébert] Former collections Lucas de Montigny and Dubrunfaut.

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