Item #12328 Requête au Roi, adressée à sa Majesté…avec les pièces justificatives. Charles Alexandre de Calonne.

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Requête au Roi, adressée à sa Majesté…avec les pièces justificatives.

N.p. [London?]: n.d. [1787?].

Price: $300.00


About the item

134, [2], 87 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. UNCUT. Full red LATER polished calf. Title slightly foxed and discolored, otherwise a fine copy, untrimmed. Not in Kress nor Goldsmith.

Item #12328

“Originally a magistrate, he became, 9th November 1783, comptroller-general of the finances, which office he held till 8th April 1787, and in which he proved himsefl singularly incompetent.” — Palgrave. This is his defence of his financial administration, issued several times in 1787, both in London and in Paris. Neither Kress, nor Goldsmith nor NUC list an issue with this collation.