Bordeaux Military Commission Judgment, Death Penalty, 1797

Military judgment for anti-revolutionary sentiments - Text poster Author/Performer Military Commission Creation date 1793, August 23 Place of creation Bordeaux Lafforest Silva Printer Creation date1793 Printed Material and technique Vellum paper Printed in black Description: Judgment rendered by the Revolutionary Tribunal of Bordeaux against Louis Azema, merchant clerk, aristocrat. He was sentenced to death as a traitor to the fatherland for "having publicly slandered a battalion of brave national guards ... having served the atrocious projects of the conspiratorial deputies, having spoken with great warmth in a reading room ... having vomited the blackest and most base slanders against the Parisian generals ..." Poster of 42 x 54 cm, recently framed, good condition