20. Travel Document Issued to Marx on His Expulsion from Belgium

Ministry of Justice

Administration of Prisons and Public Security

2nd section 2nd Bureau

No. 73946

DESCRIPTION

AGE HEIGHT 1 METRE HAIR

28 years'⁽¹⁾ ... centimetres Black FOREHEAD EYEBROWS

Average Black EYES Brown NOSE MOUTH

Average do. BEARD Black SIDE WHISKERS Black MOUSTACHE Black CHIN Round FACE do. COMPLEXION Tanned BUILT DISTINGUISHING MARKS

Heavy

TRAVEL DOCUMENT

(Law of May 30-June 13, 1790, Decree of May 11, 1815)⁽²⁾

THE ADMINISTRATOR OF PUBLIC SECURITY invites the civil and military authorities to allow free passage

from Brussels to Quiévrain destination France to M. Marx, Charles

Profession Doctor of Philosophy born at Trier, Prussia residing at — and to give him aid and protection in case of need.

The present travel document is valid for exit from the Kingdom today.

Done at Brussels, March 4, 1848

Signature of bearer Dr. K.Marx ⁽³⁾

For THE ADMINISTRATOR OF PUBLIC SECURITY

The Head of the Passport Office

Becquet

First published as a facsimile in the book: S. Z. Leviova, Marx in the German Revolution, 1848-49. Moscow, 1970

Printed from the original Translated from the French Published in English for the first

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Endnotes

(1) This is followed by the Belgian national coat of arms.— Ed.

(2) Inaccurate: Marx was born in 1818.— Ed.

(3) Signature in Marx's hand.— Ed.