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SET OF MANUSCRIPTED DOCUMENTS, collected on child abandonment, social case management, etc. : - Etat des personnes employées dans le Bureau des Enfants Orphelins de la Patrie, 29° Fructidor,an 2. - Bill, dated December 30, 1811: "I declare, promise and undertake not to ask anything of my father and mother during their lifetime, from which I wish with all my heart the prolongation"..; - Page in 4°, headed by : Avertissement pour la réception d'un enfant dans l'Hôpital de la Charité, à Lyon [Printed text]. Handwritten document stating that a 3-day-old baby girl had been found. - Description of the child - Her clothing - Practical instructions for caring for her... - Give her a name: "Orphan girl n° 628. Please name her Claudine Eusèbe, 3 days old. Le 22 nivos, an II". - Page in 4°: Warning of good living, on an old man taken in at the Villeurbanne Hospice - Page in 4°, handwritten: Certificate of 27 Frimaire, year II Commune Affranchie [Villefranche] "The Revolutionary Supervisory Committee of the Abundance section, according to the attestation of citizens Simon Beyon and Pierre Bachelet, two gardeners and neighbors, who have certified that they know well the needy citizen Marie Hélène Nicollet, wife of Jacques Rivoire, carpenter, who is breastfeeding her child named Maurice Rivoire, aged 3 and a half months." Admission paper for the Hospices de Lyon, postmarked May 4, 1793 [On the discovery of an abandoned child]. The mayor of Claviers to the Director and Sisters of the Draguignan Hospital, Citoyens, I am sending you, through the citizen ... a newborn girl who was found this morning in a cesspool. Please keep the blouse and bonnet as evidence, in case Justice discovers their denatured mother. Please note that I have given this child only temporal care.
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SET OF MANUSCRIPTED DOCUMENTS, collected on child abandonmen
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