Léonard BOURDON (1754-1807) conventionnel (Loiret), one of t - Lot 211

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Léonard BOURDON (1754-1807) conventionnel (Loiret), one of t - Lot 211
Léonard BOURDON (1754-1807) conventionnel (Loiret), one of the principal actors of August 10 and 9 thermidor. Manuscript with 2 autographed lines, École Militaire Théorique et Pratique, 17 germinal VII (April 6, 1799); 3 pages and a half in-4. Project of Military School: "Legion of 2400 young Frenchmen divided into 8 Battalions of 300 students". Purpose of the school: "This school has three objects of teaching: the military art, the arts necessary to the needs of an army, the social art"... This report is divided into parts: Purpose of the school; Pupils for the artillery and the Engineers ("Each year, a few pupils who have made the most progress [...] will present themselves at the Polytechnic School"); Orphans and children of the Defenders; Result: "thus this school will provide soldiers who, to the love of Glory, to the habit of subordination and of an austere discipline, will join a constitution strengthened by gymnastics, a continuous practice of military evolutions on foot and on horseback, and the connoissances necessary to their state", etc... Bourdon jousted at the end: "This plan had been adopted by the Commission of the 500 (letter. 17 gal year 7) which was ready to make the report of it"...
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