French Revolution Collection Ephemera

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Download or read book French Revolution Collection ephemera written by French Revolution Collection (Newberry Library) and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of nearly 200 pieces of printed ephemera, most of which is completed in manuscript, and more than 900 paper wrappers annotated with manuscript titles, all of which were produced during the French Revolution in the late 18th century and the early years of the Napoleonic era. Most of the ephemera were created or issued by the newly formed national, provincial, and municipal government bodies and institutions during France's transition from a monarchy to the French Republic. These primary sources shed light on political, military, economic, and social aspects of the French Revolution. Among the government documents are official communications of the Convention nationale, the constitutional congress of the French First Republic, and its committees; Directoire of Montauban; a variety of provincial government bodies; and municipal bodies of Paris. The provincial documents include several administrative documents with the signatures of key government officials for use in verifying the authenticity of official communications. The Paris documents include many emanating from the revolutionary sections of Paris, which arose in the early days of the French Revolution in 1790 and were suppressed in 1795. Financial documents include paper currency (mostly assignats issued during the Revolution); documents covering the requisition, either willingly or forced, of goods and funds for the revolutionary war effort; and annoucements of the sale of assets siezed from émigrés from Isère, mainly artistocrats and royalist sympathizers who fled the country during the Revolution. Among the military records are military commissions, orders, and discharge papers. Personal identification documents include those allowing passage (similar to passports), those confirming residency, and "cartes de sureté." Several documents relate to the Constitution civile du clergé and the loyaly oath to the state that the revolutionary government required clergy to take after the government seized control of the Catholic Church in France. Other ephemera in the collection include shipping records, mostly bills of lading, for ships departing from and arriving to French ports. A majority of the collection consists of contemporary paper wrappers, many of which are repurposed from printed waste. They bear the manuscript title and date of laws, decrees, and other government documents. These wrappers may have been folded around those published pamphlets by a former owner and later removed. These materials form part of the French Revolution Collection, which consists primarily of more than 30,000 pamphlets and broadsides and 180 periodical titles acquired by the Newberry Library in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The pamphlets, broadsides, and periodicals are cataloged individually.