102 - Militaria: Document/Revolution/Revolutionary Wars - Extremely Rare Print from the Committee of Public Safety - Dated 8 Nivôse, Year II (December 28, 1793) - Names of Robespierre and Carnot at the bottom of the document - An exceptional archival piece of paramount historical significance for the history of the Revolutionary Wars of the First French Republic. This original official circular letter comes directly from the Committee of Public Safety of the National Convention and bears the historic date of 8 Nivôse, Year II (December 28, 1793). Drafted on behalf of the “Bureau for the Extraordinary Manufacture of Arms,” it orders the Districts to immediately conduct a census of local gunsmith workshops: “To ensure the general armament of the Republic, to be certain that our brothers who are going to fight the enemies will have all the weapons they need to defeat and destroy them...” It includes a table to be filled out to catalog the available workforce and military equipment.At the top of the document is a splendid, large original allegorical vignette of the Republic, depicted with a pike and a Phrygian cap. At the bottom are the printed names of the Committee’s founding members: Carnot, Barère, Robespierre, Couthon, Lindet, and Billaud-Varenne.