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<p>[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 224091, member: 25"]Unfortunately most of the text is too small for me to read, but I see no reason no doubt the date. An interesting feature is the use in part of French revolutionary dating, 19th Brumiare of the year 2.</p><p>Possibly unhappily, renaming all the months and restarting the calendar never really caught on, since the names discarded all those old Roman gods, and numbers</p><p><br /></p><p>They are memorials to the persons depicted, the first is obvious but Marie, wife of Roland, is a bit obscure. Anyway, she went to the guillotine in the reign of terror.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=trade+dollar&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b#q=marie+jeanne+phelipon&*" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.google.com/search?q=trade+dollar&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b#q=marie+jeanne+phelipon&*" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?q=trade+dollar&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b#q=marie+jeanne+phelipon&*</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="afantiques, post: 224091, member: 25"]Unfortunately most of the text is too small for me to read, but I see no reason no doubt the date. An interesting feature is the use in part of French revolutionary dating, 19th Brumiare of the year 2. Possibly unhappily, renaming all the months and restarting the calendar never really caught on, since the names discarded all those old Roman gods, and numbers They are memorials to the persons depicted, the first is obvious but Marie, wife of Roland, is a bit obscure. Anyway, she went to the guillotine in the reign of terror. [URL]https://www.google.com/search?q=trade+dollar&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b#q=marie+jeanne+phelipon&*[/URL][/QUOTE]
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