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Louis-Alexandre de CESSART (1719-1806) inspector of the Ponts et Chaussées. L.A.S., Paris, March 16, 1793, to Nicolas Brémontier in Bordeaux; 2 pages in-4. On the reduction of the budget and the work to be done in the department of the Gironde: "I fear that the 55,000ll for engineering works and navigation will be further reduced, but as there is a reserve fund of 600,000ll, you could perhaps obtain a supplement for the requests of your deputies of the National Convention. For the extraordinary funds, it should be of the third of the annual product, and he hopes for a supplement: "You can thus, my dear comrade, warn the directoire that it will not depend on me that the funds intended for the great roads of the Gironde are not increased"...
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Louis-Alexandre de CESSART (1719-1806) inspector of the Ponts et Chaussées. L.A.S., Paris, March 16, 1793, to Nicolas Brémontier in Bordeaux; 2 pages in-4. On the reduction of the budget and the work to be done in the department of the Gironde: "I fear that the 55,000ll for engineering works and navigation will be further reduced, but as there is a reserve fund of 600,000ll, you could perhaps obtain a supplement for the requests of your deputies of the National Convention. For the extraordinary funds, it should be of the third of the annual product, and he hopes for a supplement: "You can thus, my dear comrade, warn the directoire that it will not depend on me that the funds intended for the great roads of the Gironde are not increased"...
