REVOLUTION. Claude-Hilaire LAURENT (1741-1801) conventionnel (Bas-Rhin). P.A., [1798]; 2 1/2 pages in-fol. List of twelve reforms, most probably drawn up at the beginning of his mandate at the Five Hundred (it refers to several legislative acts of the fall of 1797). "1° To insist on the motion of the Representative Gaivernon [Gay-Vernon] tending to exclude from public functions the privileged and qualified. 2° To assure the prompt payment of the billion promised to the defenders of the Fatherland, and to charge with this payment the relatives of emigrants [...]. 3° To pay the arrears, or at least the current pensions and assistance due to the relatives of the defenders of the fatherland [...]. 5° To promote, under the pretext of public moral instruction or national festivals, the institution known as theophilantropy, to follow up on the motion of Leclerc, and to oppose this cult to the ravages of Roman fanaticism. To skilfully link the civil acts of births, marriages and deaths with the cult of theophilantropists; to give some secret funds to establish this universal religion"... Other articles concern a forced loan, the hardening of the procedures of radiation of the list of emigrants, the reorganization of the gendarmerie "everywhere detestable", the replacement of the courts by the Directory... "10° To bring before the military commissions [...] the cutthroats known under the name of companions of Jesus and of the sun. 11° To deport the convinced royalists & the relatives of emigrants [...]. 12° To reduce the number of the Representatives provisionally until germinal and to deport the others without menagement "...