SANÉ, Jacques-Noël. Notice signed.
January 1798
Laid sheet, with watermark, measuring 310x195 mm. Printed letterhead with vignette "Marine. République Française une et indivisible." Brown ink. Beautiful specimen printed on light blue paper.
Notice signed by the naval officer of the port of Brest on Nevoise 20 of the sixth year of the Republic (January 9, 1798). The notice informs that the mathematics requirements to be evaluated for young aspiring naval second lieutenants will even be examined by Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), former Minister of the Navy, great mathematician and inventor of descriptive geometry.
"Young men from 18 to 25 years of age who intend to justify their instruction in mathematics in order to obtain second lieutenant positions in the ... half brigades of naval artillery, are warned that the Brest competition will be opened on November 21 next or March 1, 1798 (old style) and that citizen (Gaspard) Monge, examiner, will be brought here for that time ..."
Baron Sané (Brest 1740 - Paris 1821), was a famous shipbuilding engineer, Inspector General of the Maritime Engineers in 1800, Member of the Académie des Sciences from 1807 and Baron of the Empire.