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Robespierre. signed document. 1793

Robespierre (Maximilien)
"Les Representans du Peuple composans le comite de salut public a l'Armee", [A Communique to the Army on the Victories of the Republic.]
2pp, scribal copy signed by Robespierre, also signed by Lazare Carnot, Herault de Sechelles and Jacques Billaud-Varenne as members of the Comite de Salut public, dated in another hand 2 brumaire (23 Octo-ber), but actually 4 brumaire (25th October 1793, folio.

This was an announcement of victory following the Battle of Wattignies celebrating the defeat of coun-ter-Revolutionary rebellions and the expulsion of the Spanish and Piedmontese from France, urging troops onward to a final victory against tyranny.

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