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99 - [Pierre-François PALLOY (1754–1835), contractor, demolisher of the Bastille]
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[Pierre-François PALLOY (1754–1835), contractor, demolisher of the Bastille] Letter from Jacques BOILLEAU (1751–1793), president of the “Friends of the Constitution of the City of Avallon,” co-signed by two others, Avallon, April 8, “Year 4 of Liberty ” (1792), to “Patriot Palloy”; 1 page, in-4 format, addressed with a red wax seal bearing his crowned monogram. He complains that the town of Avallon has not received any of the “emblems of our revolution, fashioned by your industrious hands” to “capture the attention of patriots”; they have a bust of Mirabeau to foster a love of liberty, and they are demanding “a stone from the Bastille” to foster a hatred of despotism…
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