Assemblée des Dèputés des Israélites de France et du Royaume d’Italie

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

24th September

Paris

1806

Text in French. Official stamp of the Assemblee de Francais et Italiens on upper left corner. AUTOGRAPH SIGNATURE OF A. FURTADO, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSEMBLY lower right. Also signed by Isaac Samuel Avigdor and Rodrigues Junior, the secretaries of the Assembly

This document of the 1806 Assembly of French and Italian Jewish notables declared that the expenses of the Deputies of he Assembly should not be covered by the French Government, but rather by the Jews of France and Italy themselves. This included a monthly allowance of at least 500 francs for living expenses and an additional stipend for travel. Abraham Furtado (1756-1817) was elected President of the Assembly of Jewish Notables in 1806 and acted as Secretary of the Paris Sanhedrin in 1807. Hailing from Bordeaux, Furtado was a municipal councillor before and the French Revolution. He knew Napoleon personally and traveled to Tilsit in June 1807 to present him with a memorandum requesting a softening of restrtrictive measures against the Jewish community