BAUDEAU (Father Nicolas). Ideas of a citizen... - Lot 24 - Rossini

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BAUDEAU (Father Nicolas). Ideas of a citizen on the needs, rights, and duties of the true poor. Amsterdam, Et se trouve à Paris, BarthélemiHochereau, 1765. 2 parts in one volume in-8, hard vellum, double gilt fillet, decorated smooth spine, red title coin, red speckled edges (contemporary binding). INED, No. 283. - Einaudi, n°347. - Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, n°98. Original edition. One of the most interesting and developed works on public assistance and charity (cf. Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siècle, p. 345 et seq.). Nicolas Baudeau (1730-1792), canon and physiocrat, shared the idea that poverty is contrary to natural law and is an obstacle to happiness; he called for the creation of a patriotic alms system managed by public authority: in the exact truth, the obligation to maintain the true Poor is a very real & imprescriptible debt of the rich. ...] It is to combat this false shame [...] that we propose to form a general universal alms fund in each Diocese of the Kingdom, for the relief of all kinds of indigence, in which we combine all the income destined for good works, all voluntary oblations, & all the necessary contributions of citizens of all kinds (pp. 89-90). In the last part, the author denounces the "false poor", whom he accuses of being lazy: this is an opportunity for him to tackle a reform of the prison system (houses of apprenticeship and correction, deportation to the colonies, amendment through labour, etc.). Pretty 18th century gold vellum copy. It comes from the library of a Burgundian bibliophile, Anthelme-Michel-Laurent de Migieu (1723-1788), Marquis of Savigny-les-Beaune, the ex-libris of the latter, accompanied by a purchase price, being inscribed with a pen on the lower back cover: Demigieu 1768 2#10. Rare in this condition.
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