VAUCLUSE - BÉDOIN L'INFÂME. File concerning the martyred vil - Lot 261

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VAUCLUSE - BÉDOIN L'INFÂME. File concerning the martyred vil - Lot 261
VAUCLUSE - BÉDOIN L'INFÂME. File concerning the martyred village of Bédouin, nicknamed "Bédouin d'infâme"; following the uprooting of the tree of liberty, 63 inhabitants were condemned to death on 9 prairial year 2 (May 28, 1794) and, on 13 prairial, the village was set on fire, destroying 500 houses and public buildings as well as 8 chapels. A rare contemporary set of exactions. - 9 orders (or attestations) of requisition (lodging and food), for citizen Charles Favier and citizen Marie Vervin, issued in "Bédouin l'Infâme" between prairial 3 and 16, year 2, one written on a playing card. "The municipal commission requires citizen Favier to provide citizen Marie-Thérèse Martin, formerly a nun, detained in the house (?) with daily frugal food on the Vervint account, until further notice, and to bring her the straw she needs for her bed. A Bedouin l'infâme ce 3 prairial an 2 républicain". Signed by 2 municipal commissioners. - Handwritten sheet of accounts (2 pp. in-folio). "Compte de ce que j'ai donné pour la citoyenne Vervin veuve Aicard en 1794.
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