6 avril 2021
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Caroline Warman, « 7. 1794: ‘Le citoyen Garron’, the Comité d’instruction publique, and the Lost Manuscript of the Éléments de physiologie », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.v0c1tr
This person appears to have been called ‘le citoyen Garron’. We know of his existence from the 1837 catalogue of Parisian bookseller Pierre Leblanc. In a letter dated ‘Germinal quartidi 4, l’an II de la République’, that is, 24 March 1794, he presented a manuscript of the Éléments de physiologie to the Comité d’instruction publique [Committee for Public Eduction] of the Convention nationale. Leblanc was selling both the presentation letter and the manuscript itself. Marvellous detective work ...