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571 - Demography – DES POMMELLES (Jean-Christophe Sandrier de Mitr…
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Demography – DES POMMELLES (Jean-Christophe Sandrier de Mitry, Knight). Table showing the population of all the provinces of France, and the proportions, in all respects, of births, deaths and marriages over the past ten years, based on the registers of each generalité, accompanied by notes and observations. - Treatise on the militias, their establishment, their vicissitudes and their current state. - Examination of the question of military service rendered in kind, or its conversion into a general tax. Paris, n.p., 1789. In-4, 68 pp., with a large loose-leaf folding table, sewn. First edition of this study, which was originally intended to determine the number of men capable of serving in a militia system. The author presents a method and results that are highly interesting given the imprecision of the statistical tools of the time, and manages, for example, to estimate a total population of just over 25 million inhabitants, a figure now revised upwards (closer to 30–35 million). (INED 1396.)
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About the sale MONTIGNAC – 31st BOOK SALE – Day 2 of 4 – Nos. 550 to 1084
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Auction time 08/20/2026 at 11:00 AM
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