French Revolution, End of the XVIIIth century, 2 documents dated March 1794, Year II of the Republic - Rare certificate of civism from the Municipality of Sedan and handwritten note from the Revolutionary Surveillance Committee

Document 1:

Certificate of good citizenship of the Municipality of Sedan granted to Citizen Robert

Dated March 9, 1794, Year II of the Republic

In the left margin :

Note: The bearer of the present will be required to have it stamped at his expense before it can be used.

We, the undersigned, Mayor, Municipal Officers & Members of the General Council of the Commune of Sedan, certify that the citizen "Nicolas Felix Robert employed with the subsistances of the Army of the Ardennes" behaved until today as a good Citizen & that he always showed a not suspect patriotism; in witness of which we granted him the present to be used as a certificate of civism everywhere the need will be.

Issued in the Maison Commune; in sedan on "nineteenth ventose", the second year of the French Republic, one & indivisible. (Sunday March 9, 1794)

Red wax seal of the Municipality of Sedan: The Republic standing, holding in its right hand a pike surmounted by a Phrygian cap, the right hand resting on a lictor beam.

On the Armés des Ardennes: wikipedia link

Document 2:

Handwritten note from the Revolutionary Surveillance Committee of the Municipality of Sedan

Dated March 10, 1794, Year II of the Republic

"Revolutionary Surveillance Committee of the Commune of Sedan, 20 Ventose 2nd Republican year". (Monday 10 March 1794)

"The Permanent Council of the District of Sedan on 20 Ventose 2nd Republican Year."

Red wax seal of the Municipality of Sedan

The Law of Suspects, decreed by the Convention on September 17, 1793, in the midst of the Terror, allowed for the immediate arrest, without motive or proof, of all those who "had not constantly shown their attachment to the Revolution" or those who "having done nothing against Liberty, had done nothing for it.
At first directed against the nobles, the priests, the emigrants, the owners, it ends up including in the category of suspects all those who, by their manners, their words, their ways of thinking or of dressing, do not give the daily example of a militant enthusiasm for the revolutionary ideal. Not only the rich or the former notables are suspect, but the lukewarm, the selfish, the timid, the indifferent, the careless, and finally the revolutionaries themselves, who in turn end up falling under the double-edged law they have made to get rid of their enemies.

Framed under glass
Good condition, marks of use
27 x 31 cm including frame
Former collection André BERNHEIM (1877-1961)

About this work:
Revolutionary surveillance committees: wikipedia link
The Law of Suspects: Wikipedia link

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