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These specifications detailed requirements for folding beds to accommodate the French army. When this document was prepared in April 1803, Laussat still expected Napoleon to send the troops needed to consolidate French control of Louisiana. At the end of that month, however, the Emperor's representatives signed the Louisiana Purchase treaty and the folding beds, suddenly, were no longer needed.
     [Letters, Petitions and Decrees of the Conseil Municipal, #440]
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