68 - MISCELLANEOUS

MISCELLANEOUS Archival collection including, in particular: - 1 letter signed “Girard,” deputy from the Aude, addressed to Robespierre the Elder, dated the 20th of Pluviôse, Year II of the Republic, regarding a request for leave following the completion of his mission to procure weapons "I have come to spend two days here to make various important requests of your friends and to seek their counsel, having settled the price of the weapons... I beg you, virtuous Citizen, not to deny me a two-month leave of absence to go and restore my health in Narbonne... My brave revolutionary friend will not deny me a one-month leave of absence—a sans-culotte who, in 1786, was applauded by the Constituent Assembly…,” a request supported by La Porte, Ménille, and Fouché; 3 pages, brown ink on paper; - 1 letter signed “Maurepas,” from Jean-Frédéric de Maurepas (1701–1781), Chief Minister of State and Secretary of State for the Navy, dated November 28, 1740. - A copy of a report on a proposal for a new system of signals specific to the army and navy, presented by Jean Renaud, dated 13 Pluviôse, Year 6, General War Archives, Historical Division. 4 1/4 pages, brown ink on paper. Minor tears and creases. Etc.