[DARIGAND]. L'Anti-financier, ou Relevé de... - Lot 51 - Rossini

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[DARIGAND]. L'Anti-financier, ou Relevé de... - Lot 51 - Rossini
[DARIGAND]. L'Anti-financier, ou Relevé de quelques-uns des malversations dont se rendent quotidiennement coupables les Fermiers Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les Provinces. Amsterdam, 1763. In-8, marbled calf, spine decorated, red title page, red edges (Binding of the period). INED, n°1276. First edition of this violent pamphlet. Darigand, lawyer at the parliament of Paris, was thrown into the Bastille for having published this work. The book made a lot of noise at the time and it was sought with as much eagerness as the police made the most vivid searches to suppress it. It is not possible to express oneself more vehemently against the fermiers-généraux, against the receivers of the tailles, and in general against all the employees of the régie. Darigand forcefully combats the method of collection of these kinds of taxes, which were too numerous at the time, and which placed individuals at the mercy of a swarm of rodent henchmen, known, at the time, under the ridiculous name of cellar rats. He paints with horror the vexations to which every father of a family was exposed by them in certain provinces (Peignot, Dictionnaire des principaux livres condamnés au feu..., t. I, pp. 90-91). Exceptional copy constituted at the time by an amateur who gathered 10 pieces related to the polemic raised by the Anti-Financier : - Supplément à l'Anti-Financier. S.l.n.d. - La Clef des mystères. S.l.n.d. - L'Antropophagie, ou les antropophages. Amsterdam, 1764. Copper-engraved frontispiece. - Of the true interests of the fatherland. Rotterdam, 1764. - La Pure vérité, Réponse d'un procureur [...] sur un ouvrage qui a pour titre : Réponse à l'Auteur de l'Anti-Financier. S.l., 1764. - The Imaginary Controller General. S.l.n.d. Folding table p. 45. - Patriotic song. To the tune: Du Port-Mahon. S.l.n.d. To restore France, To give it back its abundance, Change the Finance, For that is all its evil [...]. - Answer to the Author of the Anti-Financier. The Hague, 1764. - Arrêt de la cour du Parlement de Rouen, qui ordonne que la Brochure intitulée : Réponse à l'Auteur de l'Anti-Financier sera lacérée & brûlée par l'Exécuteur de la Haute-Justice... S.l.n.d. [at the end: Rouen, J. J. Le Boullenger, 1764]. - The Vigil of Pézénas. S.l.n.d. A handwritten table of the collection is found at the head of the volume. Some pieces have been renumbered, in particular the work Des Véritables intérêts de la patrie, whose original format is in-12. Some freckling, traces of wetness on the edges of the quires.
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