DIRECTOIRE EXÉCUTIF. 20 posters, 1797-1799; printed in Saintes (one in Paris); folio or broadside (slight dampening and splitting of some posters). Proclamations: to the French, on "the royalist conspiracy" (18 fructidor V); "on several invention patents" (notably Montgolfier and Argand's hydraulic ram, and Didot's stereotype formats, 9 pluviôse VI).Decrees concerning patents for invention, "the application of calculation by France and fraction of a franc to public accounting", the road maintenance tax, payment of pensions and annuities, the National Guard, payment of civil servants, relief for widows and children of "Defenders of the Republic", creditors of émigrés, franking of letters, bearer bonds, the guarantee service for gold and silver works...

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