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‎COLLECTION des mémoires présentés à l'Assemblé des Notables. Première et seconde division.‎

‎No place, no publisher, 1787. With 2 folding tables, head- and tailpieces, vignette with fleur-de-lys on title. viii, 118 pp. 8vo. Contemporary blind wrappers, lightly damaged, an uncut copy. Kress S.5128 (other edition); INED 913 (under Calonne); Goldsmiths 13442; Einaudi 1973 (including the third and fourth parts published in 1788). First edition of the first two parts; two further parts where published in 1788. There are several editions of this work, with different pagination (this one is continuous, others are paginated 34, 84 pp or 126 pages), and the Kress copy is another variant. Presented by Calonne and edited by P.S. Du Pont de Nemours, these memoirs reflect the phsyiocratic ideas concerning a.o. taxes and the necessary reforms of the state.These memoirs deal with: Les Assemblées provinciales; l'imposition territoriale, le remboursement des dettes du clergé; la taille, le commerce des grains; la corvée; l'abolition des barrières intérieures; l'établissement d'un tarif uniforme aux frontières; les marchandises coloniales; l'impôt sur le tabac; la marque des fers, la gabelle; marchandises coloniales; suppression de marque des fers, etc. - A faint small stain in the lower blank margin on many pages. ‎

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