MARINE. Manuscript, Sur la Marine, [ca. 1795]; notebook of 10 fol. pages tied with a tricolor ribbon. Project for the reorganization of the Navy under the Revolution. This manuscript, in small, highly legible handwriting, corresponds to the second part of a study on the Navy; it is devoted to the reorganization of the French military navy in the early years of the Republic, and bears this sentence in exergue: "Hope and fear compose the motive of man's actions".The author, who remains anonymous, is primarily concerned with the personnel needed on board ships. Believing that the number of officers and sailors must be "absolutely sufficient and necessary", he gives the minimum age required for each grade and class, as well as the corresponding remuneration in francs. He proposes the creation of a new rank between midshipmen and lieutenants: "a Master Supervisor on each warship (who will be like the Masters on England's warships). His duty will be to be on the tillac near the captain or commander of the maneuver to transmit, with a megaphone, the orders of this chief to all or anyone of the crew during delicate maneuvers, such as bad weather, entering or leaving ports and roadsteads, hunting, retreating and fighting"... The creation of a "special committee of doctors and surgeons" is advocated, charged with checking the physical and intellectual qualities of young men wishing to serve in the Navy... Etc.