Item f.16r - Report to the Comité de Salut Public, signed by unidentified person

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MCOL/Van de Weyer Albums/Album 7/f.16r

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Report to the Comité de Salut Public, signed by unidentified person

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  • 14 December 1794 (Creation)

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1 leaf of paper, 2 p.

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(19 January 1802 – 23 May 1874)

Biographical history

Van de Weyer served as Belgium’s Prime minister from July 1845 to March 1846. However, he lived for the majority of his life in London (17 Fitzroy Square, 50 Portland Place) and Windsor (New Lodge), and held the office of Belgian Minister at the Court of St. James’s under Queen Victoria, an ambassadorial role. Van de Weyer was close friends with Lord Palmerston. In addition to being a member of the Roxburghe Club, Van de Weyer was a founder member of the Philobiblon Society, the Vice President of the London Library, a Member of the Société des Bibliophiles de Belgique and the Head of the Royal Library of Brussels.
Pierre Henri Laurent said of Van de Weyer: 'His manners, taste, and savoir-faire brought him into the vital center of the intellectual, diplomatic, and financial communities. His home became the meeting place of writers, artists, and scientists’.

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Report in French on headed paper to the Comité de Salut Public, addressed from Paris, signed by an unidentified person.

The document is dated in the French republican calendar system: "le 24 frimaire de l'an troisième de la République Française".

Partial transcription:
"Paris le 24 frimaire de l’an troisième de la République Française, une et indivisible.
Rapport
Au Comité de Salut Public
Le Citoyen Henrion Directeur général des transports militaires de l’armée de Sambre et Meuse, nous fait connaitre le trait de Bravoure du C[itoye]n Pomme Charretier de la division Hautenot, qui n’a pas craint de s’exposer à une mort presque certaine en bravant le feu de l’ennemi pour sauver à la republique la perte de deux chevaux qui s’etaient échappé et avaient été sous les palissades entre la porte de la ville et le fort st jean.
Le trait de Bravoure du cit[oy]en Pomme ne doit pas rester sans récompense : mais comme la capacité et les connaissances de ce citoyen ne répondent pas à son généreux dévouement à l’intérêt de la république, il est impossible de l’élever a un grade supérieur, on ne peut que le reconnaitre par une simple gratification.
Le comité est prié de fixer la récompense que mérite le citoyen Pomme."

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  • French

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    33.6 cm x 21.5 cm

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    The document is adhered to a guard leaf.

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    • French

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