In this letter, the author, Tréchard, boasts of the advantages of his process: “I managed to find universal help, that is to say they go everywhere where the pump can be communicated; everything is enclosed in a basket of wicker that a single man can carry at the first time; they can be maneuvered without ever using any entrance to the burnt house; had it been six floors, in the space of six minutes, I introduce the pump in all the apartments, I make myself master of the fire, and we are saving everyone with the rapidity of lightning, without the most infirm patients being the least exposed, I go and fetch them from their beds and I can transport them without their having seen anything; the most precious effects are also saved. I now answer for the fire of the shows, no one can perish, I r.
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