[LE TROSNE (Guillaume-François). On the Provincial Administr - Lot 342

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[LE TROSNE (Guillaume-François). On the Provincial Administr - Lot 342
[LE TROSNE (Guillaume-François). On the Provincial Administration, and the Reform of the Tax. In Basle, s.n., 1779. In-4, marbled basane, spine decorated (period binding). First edition, extremely rare because seized at the time of its publication: in his reform of the tax, Le Trosne did not spare much the prerogatives of the clergy; the guard of the Seals fearing that this book did not indispose the bishops and archbishop, made it seize although 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 the tax and the inadequacy of the means provided by it, brought to mind a project put forward by the Marquis de Mirabeau in his 1750 pamphlet on the usefulness of the Provincial States. The Academy of Toulouse took up this question and invited the authors to give their opinion on the generalization of the Provincial Administrations. Le Trosne answered in 1755 with a memoir which won the prize offered by the Academy. It is this memoir which will be transformed into a book in 1779 (Leblanc, De Thomas More à Chaptal, n°91). More important stains at the end of the volume with traces of mold. The supplement entitled Manière de simplifier le plan proposé (24 pages) is in photocopy on laid paper. Binding badly restored.
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