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Jean-Marie COLLOT D'HERBOIS – Piece signed co-signed by Joseph FOUCHE

Piece signed with autograph corrections, co-signed by Fouché "Fouché de Nantes" (rare form of signature). Freed city (Lyon), 28 brumaire year 2 (18 November 1793); 2 ½ folio pages on paper adorned with a vignette with the heading “The representatives of the people, sent to the Army of the Alps, and in different Departments of the Republic”.
Important document on the reorganization of Lyon with numerous corrections by Collot d'Herbois who, with Fouché, list a series of articles to give more efficiency to the work of the constituted authorities having to watch over the great public interests: "Considering that a continuous, effective, and simultaneous action of all the authorities reconstituted in a freed city is absolutely necessary to bring out in this Commune, the debris of public affairs, from the abyss where they were engulfed by the Counter-revolutionaries . That the Temporary Commission of Republican Surveillance must be as it was explained by the decree of the representatives of the people published on the 20 brumaire, a new spring, which by pressing the authorities gives them more force and energy and that this This goal would not be fulfilled if each authority transferred its obligations and its functions to this Commission by multiple referrals, which would overload it in such a way that it could not then suffice for the duties imposed on it. Have stopped the following.
Art 1. Any authority constituted in a town freed since last October ninth (old style) shall be permanent and shall not be able to make any referrals, in respect of it, of the operations delegated to it, to another authority.
Art 2. None of the members who make up each constituted authority will be removed from its midst except for important public affairs missions. They will abolish the use of deputations to communicate either among themselves or with the National representations. Any communication to be made briefly, in writing; or in urgent cases by a single Commissioner.
Art 3 All these authorities by strengthening the intimate union which supports them mutually and this relation of principles and actions which all refer to republican unity will constantly have their attention fixed on the great public interests which are entrusted to their administration such that supplies and subsistence, the upkeep and operation of mills, the threshing of grain, the preservation and upkeep of sequestrations, the upkeep of the public road in cities and on the highways, the prompt punishment of traitors, and the search for those who believe they are escaping national justice. The demolitions of all the proscribed buildings, the classification & activity of the workers - the regeneration of the Public Spirit too long infected with Royalism, federalism & revolt. The repression of prostitution, immorality, superstition still scandalously displayed up to date named what is both a culpable offense of the decrees restating the Republican area and a gross insult to reason & common sense. The inspection on idlers always suspicious. The strict policing of public places, the execution of decrees and orders of the representatives of the people. The contribution & conservation of all that has been requisitioned for our brothers in the armies & for the common enjoyment.
It is thus that acting together by an energetic and salutary movement, moving briskly towards the same end without ever mutually deferring their obligations to each other. Public officials will have fulfilled their duties, the first reward of true Republicans. In cases where the means and powers delegated to them would not be sufficient, & where the higher administrations which must give the decisions of districts, cantons, & communes in their respective jurisdictions, the same impulse would experience embarrassment or of resistance: then the Special Delegated Temporary Commission, representatives of the People who must monitor and fortify everything in their name, provide these different authorities with the necessary aid: then the Representatives themselves would intervene so that any partial movement contrary to the sovereign will of the French people be repressed, so that all opposition disappears before its power in a freed city [Lyon] on the 28th of Brumaire on the 2nd of the one & indivisible French Republic…”

From 1789 to 1792, Lyon's harvests and economy suffered. The population in despair is more and more sensitive to the themes conveyed by the democratic clubs. Troops are amassed at the gates of the city to avoid any overflows. In September 1792, rioters massacred eight royalist officers, in detention, and three refractory priests, the Republicans clashed between moderates and radicals. The exodus of part of the nobility had a direct impact on the Lyon silk industry. The Jacobins gain access to the town hall, but the measures taken, too radical, are quickly unpopular and cause the return of the Girondins. The latter, although Republicans, are against the revolutionary ideals of the Mountain in Paris which consider them outlaws. On July 12, 1793, the Convention declared Lyon “in a state of rebellion against legitimate authority”. Faced with the revolutionary armies led by Kellermann, the defense of the city is organized. The siege begins on August 7 and ends on October 12. The National Convention decrees that "the name of Lyon will be erased from the list of cities of the Republic and will henceforth bear the name of Freed City". The Jacobin repression is violent for the population. Fouché who is in charge of executing the order to destroy the city encourages mass executions with guns rather than the guillotine considered too slow. 1,683 people were shot or guillotined and several rich mansions, Place Bellecour, were destroyed. It follows a massive exodus of the population which carries a serious damage with the production of silk. After the fall of Robespierre, October 12, 1794, the city can finally regain its original name.
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