J. 123
Political tracts.
French. 1787-1792
.
4
to.
viz.
Lit de justice du 6. Aout 1787.--
Finances de S
t. Domingue de Marbois.
--
Lit de justice du 8. Mai 1788--
lettre du roi pour la convocation des etats generaux 27 Avr. 1789.--
Motifs et plan de municipalité de Paris--
Memoire des ministres du 24. Oct. 89.
Rapport aux negocians de Bordeaux.
Memoire de M. de la Luzerne.
Petñ of the Quakers to the National assembly.
Addresse de amis des noirs par Claviere.
Memoire sur les finances par Montesquiou.
Discours de Bertrand sur S
t. Domingue 19. Dec. 91.
Reponse de l’Empereur du 21. Dec. 91.
lettre de Mirbeck à l’assemblée de S
t. Domingue.
Mountflorence’s lr
(
~e
) relative to La Fayette. M.S.
Vindication of the planters of Martinique & Guadeloupe.
1815 Catalogue, page 103. no. 379, Political Tracts French, 87-92, 4to.
A collection of tracts in quarto bound together in the original half sheep, with later endpapers, and no list of the tracts
in Jefferson’s hand. On the upper margin of the title-page of the first tract Jefferson has written the chapter number
24, and his instructions to the binder of which only the words
half bound remain, the rest almost completely cut away. The tracts are numbered in ink, serially.
JA36 .P8 vol. I [
i.e. “1”--
Ed.]
1.
Lit de justice du 6. Aout 1787.
Procès-verbal de ce qui s’est passé au Lit de Justice, tenu par le Roi à Versailles, le lundi 6 août 1787. A
Paris: de
l’imprimerie royal,
m. dcclxxxvii
. [1787.]
30 leaves, imprint on the title and at the end.
On the title are written Jefferson’s instructions to the binder, see above.
This, and that of May 8 (no. 3 in this volume of tracts) were the last two
lits de justice held.
Lits de justice were extra-ordinary sessions of the Parlement of Paris and of the Provinces, held in the presence of the King. They were attended by various officials, including marshals, governors of provinces, the grand chamberlain, the master of the horse, the provost marshal, and others. The room was arranged in five tiers, in which the participants were seated according to rank, the princes of the blood at the top and the conseillers of Parliament at the bottom.
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2.
Finances de S
t. Domingue de Marbois.
BARBÉ MARBOIS,
François, Marquis de.
Etat des finances de Saint-Domingue, contenant le résumé des recettes & dépenses de toutes les caisses publiques, depuis le
10 novembre 1785, jusqu’au 1
er janvier 1788, par M. Barbé de Marbois, intendant des Isles Françoises sous le vent.
Au
Port-au-Prince: de l’imprimerie de
Mozard.
m. dcc. lxxxviii
. [1788.]
