‎POMBAL Sebastião de - SALDANHA DA GAMA Francisco - Pierre Olivier PINAULT (translator) :‎
‎Histoire de la dernière conjuration de Lisbonne. A laquelle on a joint deux piéces instructives...‎

‎".: 7. Francfort (Frankfurt), Amsterdam, s.e. / Marc Michel Rey / s.e., 1759, in-8°, 60 + 16 + 64 pp, contemporary spickled boards, gilt lettered spine (spine damaged due to worming, first four pages with some small wormholes not affecting text). Bound with B ; Decret du Card. Saldanha pour la Réforme des Jésuites de Portugal et des Domaines qui en dépendent. Du 15 Mai 1758. Amsterdam, chez Marc Michel Rey, 1759, 16 pp. Bound with C ; La Republique des Jesuites ou Paraquay renversee, contenant une relation authentique de la guerre que ces Religieux ont osé soutenir contre les Monarques d'Espagne et de Portugal en Amerique...Amsterdam, Aux Depens de la Compagnie, 1759, 64 pp. A. A conspiration (allegedly) made an assassination attempt on king Joseph I of Portugal on 3 Sept. 1758. This gave the marquis de Pombal the opportunity to eliminate the Távora family and expel the Jesuit order. B and C. There was a war on between Portugal and Spain on the one hand and the Indians and the Jesuits on the other. C. was originally written in Portugese by Sebastião Jose de Caravalho e Melo de Pombal, (Marquis of Pombal 1699 - 1782), Portugese minister of Foreign Affairs under King José I . The translation is by Pierre Olivier Pinault."‎

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