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LOUIS XVI
Document signed and subscribed ("Le Roi consent et fera exécuter/ Le 2 avril 1792/ Louis"), being the Decree made by the National Assembly on 31 March 1792 in the ʻFourth Year of Liberty', passing measures to re-establish order in the Department of the Cantal, Paris, 2 April 1792

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LOUIS XVI

Document signed and subscribed ("Le Roi consent et fera exécuter/ Le 2 avril 1792/ Louis"), being the Decree made by the National Assembly on 31 March 1792 in the ʻFourth Year of Liberty', passing measures to re-establish order in the Department of the Cantal, signed by Claude Dorizy, President, and four other members, with the Assembly papered seal, the King's docket written in the margin, his signature scored through with a single stroke; with woodcut decorative heading (ʻLa Nation/ La Loi/ Le Roi'), 2 pages, plus integral blank, on pale blue-green paper with the Maid of Dort ʻPro Patria' watermark, guard on blank, folio, Paris, 2 April 1792

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ʻLE ROI CONSENT ET FERA EXÉCUTER' – LOUIS XVI AUTHORISES A DECREE OF THE NATONAL ASSEMBLY, ten months after his attempted flight from France and nine before he was sent to the guillotine by the same National Assembly. The Assembly was at this time trying to damp down some of the fury against seigneuralism that had been unleashed by the revolution, with reports of a renewed spate of chateau-burning coming in that January and February. In March the locus of peasant activism had shifted from the Lot to the adjacent department of the Cantal, where political agitators were inciting the rural populace to attack chateaux in the neighbourhood of Aurillac (see P.M. Jones, The Peasantry in the French Revolution, 1988, pp. 120-1).

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