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[DARIGRAND (Edme-François). L'Anti-financier, ou Relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent quotidiennement coupables les Fermiers Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les provinces : servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé : Lettre servant de réponse aux remontrances du Parlement de Bordeaux ; précédée d'une Epître au Parlement de France, accompagné de notes historiques. Amsterdam, sn, 1763. In-12, [2] ff (title page with explanation of the figure on the reverse, title), 60 pp, 107 pp, with an allegorical frontispiece, marbled fawn calf, smooth spine decorated, red title page, gilt roulette on the edges, marbled edges (period binding). A good copy, a little cut short however. One of the editions published in 1763 of this pamphlet against the power of the Fermiers Généraux and the very system of the Farm. Darigrand (c. 1735 - after 1790), lawyer at the parliament of Paris after having been employed in the gabelles, full of hatred for the financiers, never ceased to attack them in his writings and speeches by denouncing the numerous abuses of the farm system. This work had a great repercussion and made throw its author to the Bastille in 1764. This text contributed powerfully to the diffusion of his black legend, which influenced the now traditional presentation of this institution for the 18th century and the pre-Revolution. Bound in the suite: [VOLTAIRE], L'Homme aux quarante écus. Paris, by the Compagnie des libraires associés, 1768, title and 102 pp. The only work by Voltaire devoted solely to economics, this tale features a farmer, whose income is 40 écus. He makes a fortune, and, through dialogues between him and various characters, Voltaire gives his opinion on physiocrats, taxes, and taxation. (Edition absent from Bengesco.)
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[DARIGRAND (Edme-François). L'Anti-financier, ou Relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent quotidiennement coupables les Fermiers Généraux, & des vexations qu'ils commettent dans les provinces : servant de réfutation d'un écrit intitulé : Lettre servant de réponse aux remontrances du Parlement de Bordeaux ; précédée d'une Epître au Parlement de France, accompagné de notes historiques. Amsterdam, sn, 1763. In-12, [2] ff (title page with explanation of the figure on the reverse, title), 60 pp, 107 pp, with an allegorical frontispiece, marbled fawn calf, smooth spine decorated, red title page, gilt roulette on the edges, marbled edges (period binding). A good copy, a little cut short however. One of the editions published in 1763 of this pamphlet against the power of the Fermiers Généraux and the very system of the Farm. Darigrand (c. 1735 - after 1790), lawyer at the parliament of Paris after having been employed in the gabelles, full of hatred for the financiers, never ceased to attack them in his writings and speeches by denouncing the numerous abuses of the farm system. This work had a great repercussion and made throw its author to the Bastille in 1764. This text contributed powerfully to the diffusion of his black legend, which influenced the now traditional presentation of this institution for the 18th century and the pre-Revolution. Bound in the suite: [VOLTAIRE], L'Homme aux quarante écus. Paris, by the Compagnie des libraires associés, 1768, title and 102 pp. The only work by Voltaire devoted solely to economics, this tale features a farmer, whose income is 40 écus. He makes a fortune, and, through dialogues between him and various characters, Voltaire gives his opinion on physiocrats, taxes, and taxation. (Edition absent from Bengesco.)
