189 - [POLICE]

[POLICE] Collection of documents (about twenty items); reports, various requests, censorship (performances or press articles), etc., including: 1-Autograph letter signed “De Cazes” (Minister of Police) addressed to the Prefect of the Loire, dated February 6, 1816. 1 folio page; fine copy. Warning: “(…) pay particular attention (…) to people of all classes who approach the barracks, maintain regular contact with the soldiers, and frequent the places where they gather (…)”. 2-Autograph letter dated April 26, 1834, signed by a deputy (illegible), reporting on the arrest and subsequent interrogation of the young Chabret (?) “(…) accused of having taken an active part in the insurrection that recently broke out in Paris.” 2 pp., in-8; fine copy. 3-Daily report (printed letterhead featuring the imperial eagle) handwritten by police, dated October 17, 1854. 2 folio-sized sheets; good copy. General Security Report “Every day we have to deal with a certain number of individuals found wandering at night within the city or sleeping outside the city walls in haystacks. The city of Avignon is teeming with outsiders with no known means of support (…) we will immediately have these foreigners escorted back to their countries (…) and the same applies to women of ill repute (…)”. [further on] “On Sunday and yesterday, Monday, we had intelligence secretly gathered from wigmakers’ shops (…). 4-Undated, anonymous handwritten note. 1p in-12; fine copy. “I have had the letters from Garec (or Garat) and Paul Malherbe sealed… Please arrange for me to seal the letters commuting the sentence to the galleys on Wednesday; I have decided that it will not be noted—you are not to make any mention of the brand.” The set is in very satisfactory condition. Rare judicial documentation. 5-Commutation of a death sentence by hanging to life imprisonment concerning Reine Baudot, a domestic servant, dated 1784. 2 handwritten pp., in-12; fine copy.