‎(CLICQUOT DE BLERVACHE, S.)‎
‎Le Réformateur. Nouvelle édition, à laquelle on a ajouté le Réformateur réformé; & précédée des Observations sur la Noblesse & le Tiers État.‎

‎A Amsterdam, Chez Arkstée & Merkus, 1766. With one folding table. 2 volumes. (4), xxiv, 113, (1) pp.; (iii), xxxvi, (2), 268 pp.; (2), 268, (2), (3)-78 pp. 12mo. Contemporary marbled calf, spines richly gilt, contrasting labels on spine with gilt lettering. Not in Kress; not in Goldsmiths; not in Einaudi; not in Higgs; INED 1141 (first work only); Weulersse, i, p. xxv. Third and best edition. The attribution is uncertain. See: Vroil, J. de. Etude sur Clicquot de Blervache, p. xxxiii. 'Clicquot de Blervache, s'inspirant de quelques-unes des considérations qui avaient dicté à Vauban son projet de Dîme royale, et à Boulainvilliers son plan de réforme financière, pose en principe 'que ce qui est le plus simple approche le plus de la perfection', et prétend réduire tous les impôts à deux au plus' (Weulersse, ii, p. 348). The added text "Réformateur réformé" is a reply to the first of which the author is unknown. Simon Clicquot de Blervache (1723-1796), French economist. Both before and after his appointment as director general of manufactures and commerce in 1766 he wrote a number of tracts dealing with matters of economic policy. He was fundamentally an economic liberal, although caution occasionally impelled him to favor moderate internal regulation or more drastic regulation of foreign trade. - With library ticket on front paste-down of both volumes: Bibliothèque du Chateau de Salles - H. du Closel. ‎

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