Mémoire qui démontre l'utilité de la Compagnie des Indes et la necessité de la maintenir.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Compagnie des Indes.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Compagnie des Indes--Early works to 1800.

Compagnie des Indes.

Slave trade--France--Early works to 1800.

Slave trade.

Commerce.

History.

France--Commerce--Africa--History--18th century.

France.

France--Commerce--America--History--18th century.

France--Colonies--Commerce--Africa.

Colonies.

Africa.

France--Colonies--Commerce--America.

America.

Genre:

Codices.

Treatises.

Manuscripts, French.

Manuscripts, European.

Physical Description:

leaves 1-34 : paper ; 250 x 190 (164 x 105) mm bound to 337 x 220 mm

Contained In:

Memoranda and observations on the Compagnie des Indes.

Other Title:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1031

Place of Publication:

[France], [after 1724]

Language Note:

French.

Summary:

Discussion of commerce in general and the benefits of the Compagnie des Indes in particular, with specific discussion of Guinea, Senegal, and Barbary in Africa and Louisiana and Canada in North America. There are references to other European powers and the slave trade. A concluding section, titled Mémoire pour la Compagnie des Indes (ff. 22v-31r), concerns the finances of the Compagnie.

Contents:

Fol. 1-31r: "[fol. 1r] Avant d'entrir dans le détail du commerce de la Compagnie des Indes, il est bon de faire quelques observations...[fol. 31r] par l'augmentation des effets qui sont beaucoup au de nous de laeur valeur."

Notes:

Ms. component part.

Title from title page (f. ii); "en France" added by a later hand below the last line; date based on latest date in work (f. 23r).

Foliation: Paper, ii + 31 + i (foliation in text used in this record).

Cited in:

Described in Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800: Supplement A(1). Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 28 (Ms. French 131).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1031

OCLC:

155928868