‎GOUY, (D'ARCY, L.M.) DE.‎
‎Première dénonciation solemnelle d'un ministre, faite à l'Assemblée nationale, en la personne du comte de La Luzerne, ministre d'Etat, de la Marine et des Colonies, signée par les représentans de la colonie; approuvée et confimée (sic) par les trois Assemblées provinciales et par l'Assemblée coloniale de Saint-Domingue. Paris, Chez Demonville, 1790. - (Followed by:) (GOUY D'ARCY, L.M. De.) Supplément à la dénonciation de M. de La Luzerne, ministre de la Marine & des Colonies, ou Réponse par des pièces justificatives, sans réplique, au prétendu Mémoire justificatif qu'il a publié en juin 1790. Par les Députés de Saint-Domingue à l'Assemblée Nationale. (Drop-head title).‎

‎No place, no date, (Paris, 1790.) 2 volumes. (4), 166, 141 pp.; 31 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, spine gilt in compartments, marbled boards (volume 1), modern half morocco, marbled boards (volume 2). Martin & Walter 15478 (first volume only); Sabin 28152 (first volume only); not in Echeverria & Wilkie; not in JFBL. Original edition, extremely rare with the "Supplement ...." which is almost always lacking. Against the policy of La Luzerne with regards to the colonies. Gouy d'Arcy led the colonial delegates in support of the Tennis Court Oath: the colonies had sent delegates to the upcoming Estates General in France and had even drafted their own cahiers des doléances in which they voiced their demands for more home rule and economic freedom.Gouy d'Arcy acquired a consderable fortune by marrying Anne-Amable Hux de Bayeux, a rich creole from Saint-Domingue and he became an ardent defender of colonial and Saint-Domingue interests, was founder of the colonial committee of Paris and the Club Massiac, and was instrumental in legislation favouring the colonists, and a fierce opponent of Brissot and the Amis des Noirs. Together with Moreau de Saint-Méry, he organized fierce opposition to any colonial reform (see: Albert Soboul, Dictionnaire historique de la Révolution française, pp. 516-7.)The original frontcover of volume one is preserved and gives, both recto and verso, the chronology of the events in Saint-Domingue covering the period December 1st 1789 - 22 October 1790. - Very rare in this complete state. ‎

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