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‎COLLECTION of 4 decrees concerning the Revolutionary Tribunal.‎

‎Troyes, 1793. 4 pieces. 2, 2, 2 and 2 pp. Small 4to. Separate leaves. The Revolutionary Tribunal was a special high court established in 1793 to try crimes against the republic. This new court, from which there was no appeal, was instituted at a time when Revolutionary France seemed in a desparate situation: military defeats, the treason of Dumouriez and the eruption of counterrevolution in the Vendée and riots in Paris.The Tribunal was to have jurisdiction over all counterrevolutionary activities, all attacks on liberty, equality, unity, the indivisibility of the Republic, the internal and external security of the state, and all plots tending to reestablish the monarchy or any other authority hostile to liberty, equality, and the sovereignty of the people. The most famous name attached to the Tribunal is that of Fouquier-Tinville. Contains:1. DECRET de la Convention nationale, du 30 Mai 1793, qui nomme un juge & quatre suppléans au Tribunal criminel extraordinaire. No place, no date.2. DECRET de la Convention nationale du 8 Juin 1793, qui nomme les jurés & les remplaçans pour le tribunal criminel extraordinaire. (At end:) Troyes, Imprimerie d'André, (1793). 3. DECRET de la Convention nationale du 13 Juin 1793, qui proroge jusqu'au 1er Juillet les fonctions des jurés du tribunal extraordinaire. (At end:) Troyes, Imprimerie de Sainton, (1793).4. DECRET de la Convention nationale du 26 Juin 1793, relatif aux jurés du tribunal révolutionnaire. (At end:) Troyes, Imprimerie d'André, (1793).- In the left outer margin the numbers 976, 977, 1000, 1076. ‎

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