[Gilly] - Pergot ainé.

[Gilly] - Pergot ainé.

Autograph document signed. Gilly. 4to. 1 page.
$ 544 / 500 € (91727/BN61050)

For the department of Mont Blanc, a certificate issued at the request of the emigrant Joseph-Bertrand de Chamousset, baron de Gilly: "Je soussigné secrétaire de la commune de Gilly, certifie, qu'à la réquisition du Citoyen Joseph De Bertrand de Chamousset, avoir procédé ce charge et décharge des N.os sig. 257 [...] et deux journeaux, deux cents Toises du No. 8 a prendre part du couchant, incrits à la cotte de Guillaume de Chamousset et de beaufort pierre, et en avons chargé le requérant ensuite de Son contracte d'aquis de la république Française [...]".

- The sale of sequestered national assets of "second origin", based on a decree of July 27, 1792, was meant both to sanction "enemies" and to resolve the financial crises caused by the Revolution. After the seizure of possessions of the clergy, king, nobles, schools, juridical and administrational institutions, a second step included the property of emigrants like Chamousset. In 1802, Bonaparte proclaimed the restitution of unsold emigrant properties. - With three stamps; slightly foxed..

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