[LE TROSNE (Guillaume-François)]. On Provincial Administrati - Lot 78

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[LE TROSNE (Guillaume-François)]. On Provincial Administrati - Lot 78
[LE TROSNE (Guillaume-François)]. On Provincial Administration and Tax Reform. A Basle, s.n., 1779. In-4, marbled basane, spine decorated (contemporary binding). Original edition, extremely rare because it was seized at the time of its publication: in its tax reform, Le Trosne did not spare the prerogatives of the clergy very much; the Keeper of the Seals, fearing that this book might upset the bishops and archbishops, had it seized even though Necker had favored its publication and distribution (cf. Peignot, Dictionnaire des livres condamnés au feu, t. II, p. 164). In 1755, the difficulties caused by the collection of taxes and the inadequacy of the means provided by it, made one think of a project put forward by the Marquis de Mirabeau in his 1750 pamphlet on the usefulness of provincial states. The Academy of Toulouse takes up this question again and invites the authors to give their opinion on the generalization of provincial administrations. The Trosne responded in 1755 with a dissertation that won the prize offered by the Academy. It is this dissertation that will be transformed into a work in 1779 (Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, n°91). Wetness, more important at the end of the volume with traces of mould. The supplement entitled A Way to Simplify the Proposed Plan (24 pages) is photocopied on laid paper. The binding is very well restored.
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