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[POLITICAL ECONOMY — CALONNE (Charles-Alexandre de)].
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[POLITICAL ECONOMY — CALONNE (Charles-Alexandre de)].
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
[POLITICAL ECONOMY — CALONNE (Charles-Alexandre de)]. An important collection of nine texts relating to Calonne’s financial administration, his controversy with Necker and the affair concerning the exchange of the county of Sancerre. 1787–1788.
9 texts collected in 3 in-8 volumes, in full contemporary calfskin, with a decorated ribbed spine. Endpapers.
Contains:
1/ Petition to the King. Addressed to His Majesty. [Followed by:] Clarifications and supporting documents. No place, no publisher, 1787. (1) fol., 212 pp., (1) fol., 98 pp., 107 pp.
2/ Statement of the state of our finances as at April 1787, based on the figures published by Mr de Calonne, Minister, and by Mr Necker. No place, no publisher, December 1787. XII, 52 pp., 2 folded tables.
3/ Mr de Calonne’s reply to Mr Necker’s paper, published in April 1787; containing an examination of the financial statements submitted in 1774, 1776, 1781, 1783 and 1787: with observations on the findings of the Assembly of Notables. London, T. Spilsbury, January 1788. [Followed by:] Supporting or supplementary documents. [Followed by:] Appendix. XVI, 424 pp., 9 folded tables, 89 pp., (1) f. 62 pp.
4/ CARRA (M.). A brief reply to M. de Calonne regarding his petition to the King. Amsterdam and Paris, Hôtel de Marigny, 1787. 89 pp., 1 folded table.
5/ Letter from a legal adviser in a small town to M. de Calonne. No place, no date. 18 pp. No title page.
6/ Observations by the town of Saint-Mihiel, in Lorraine, on the exchange of the County of Sancerre; in response to Mr de Calonne’s petition. At Saint-Mihiel, no publisher, 1787. 180 pp.
7/ Supporting documents for the observations of the town of Saint-Mihiel in response to the petition presented to the King by Mr de Calonne concerning the exchange of the County of Sancerre. Saint-Mihiel, n.p., 1787. 124 pp., 3 folded tables.
8/ Breakdown of the revenues from His Majesty’s estates ceded to Mr d’Espagnac in exchange for the County of Sancerre. 4 pp.
9/ Deliberations of the three estates of the town of Saint-Mihiel on the defamatory allegations set out in Mr d’Espagnac’s memorandum. Saint-Mihiel, Charles Duval, 1788. 23 pp.
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