[PARISIAN SECTIONS DURING REVOLUTION]:

[PARISIAN SECTIONS DURING REVOLUTION]: A good selection of thirty seven documents related to the sections created during the revolution in Paris, including decrees, certificates, printed or partially printed documents, one to two pages, 8vo or 4to, most dated 1792-93. The 31 sections included, out of 48, are Beaurepaire, Bondy, Bonnet Rouge, Brutus, Champs Elysées, Contrat Social, Faubourg du Nord, Finistère, Fontaine de Grenelle, Gravilliers, Guillaume Tell, Halle-aux-Bleds, Indivisibilité, Place des Fédérés, Place Royale, Invalides, Luxembourg, Mutius-Scaevola, Marais, Homme Armé, Mauconseil, Bon-Conseil issued six days before Louis XVI fall and reporting that `..we do not consider anymore Louis XVI as our King and we invite other Parisian sections to join us..´, Museum signed by Pierre Sotin de la Coindrière (1764-1810) Minister of Police, Oratoire, Panthéon-Français, Piques a section which was leaded by Robespierre from 1792 with the Marquis the Sade as secretary, Quinz-Vingt, Rue de Poissonnière, Pont-Neuf, République, Réunion, Sans-Culottes, Temple, Théatre Français, Marseille a section which was also known as Marat, one of the best-known sections including Marat, Danton and Desmoulins as members of the committee, Tuileries and Unité, many signed and countersigned by multiple members of the sections, some including ink stamps from each section, some with wax seals, etc.. G to VG, 37 £600-900