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[Archives] 1-Le Mans District / Excerpt from the minutes of the Le Mans District Administration. Session of the 26th Brumaire, Year III of the One and Indivisible Republic. Le Mans, Monnoyer, Year III of the Republic (1795). Dimensions: 54 x 43 cm; fine copy. Requisition of grain in light of the dangers that “(…) famine is on the verge of unleashing its horrors upon the commune of Le Mans (…)”. 2-Criminal judgment of the Seneschal’s Court of Maine and the Presidial Court of Le Mans, which removes Joseph Dugué from his position and office as warden of the royal prisons of this city (…) and sentences him to a fine of 20 livres for insulting the King’s brother.” Monnoyer Printing House, 1778. Dimensions: 53 x 41 cm; traces of burn marks on the margins and old water stains. 3-The Republic’s Commission on Arms and Gunpowder. To the national agent for the Alençon district. Proclamation dated 1794 (no printer’s name); dimensions: 46 x 35 cm. Fine copy. “Considering that the immense quantity of gunpowder to be manufactured for the defense of the Republic requires that provision be made in advance for the production of a very large number of barrels, without which this gunpowder could neither be stored nor transported (…)” the requisition orders “Old barrels, old casks, beer kegs, oil barrels, and cider barrels, the owners of which shall not be deemed to have any use for them (…)” 4-Decree of the Criminal Police Court sitting in Alençon dated 14 Brumaire, Year 4 of the One and Indivisible French Republic. Alençon, Malassis, undated [1796]. Dimensions: 49.5 x 38.5 cm. Fine copy. Explanation in five sections of the court’s operations. 5-Decree of the Prefect of the Orne Department, convening the municipal councils of all communes in the same department, dated 18 Thermidor, Year XII. Alençon, Printed by the Prefecture, Year XII [1804]. Dimensions: 51.5 x 42 cm. Small tear affecting the letter “A” in the title; crease marks. 6-Speech delivered on the 10th of Germinal, Year IV, in the square in front of the Town Hall of Alençon, at the Youth Festival by General Baraguey-D’Hilliers, Chief of Staff of the Eastern Division of the Armies of the Atlantic Coast. Alençon, Imprimerie des Malassis, Year IV [1796]. Dimensions: 52 x 42 cm. Paper gap with loss of a few words (due to a folding defect).