Arrêt du Conseil d'État du roi, qui accorde des primes d'encouragement aux négocians françois qui transporteront des morues sèches de pêche nationale dans les îles du Vent & sous le Vent, ainsi que dans les ports de l'Europe, tels que ceux d'Italie, d'Espagne & de Portugal : du 18 septembre 1785 : extrait des registres du Conseil d'Etat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

France. Conseil du roi.

Contributor:

Imprimerie royale (France), printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Fish trade--Law and legislation--France.

Fish trade.

Shipping bounties and subsidies--France.

Shipping bounties and subsidies.

Fish trade--Law and legislation.

West Indies, French--Commerce--18th century.

West Indies, French.

France.

France--History--Louis XVI, 1774-1793.

History.

Physical Description:

10 pages, 2 unnumbered pages (final leaf blank) ; 25 cm

Other Title:

France Pamphlets 1775-1785. no. 13 PU

Fingerprint:

leui e,le atur onnt (C) 1785 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : De l'Imprimerie royale, MDCCLXXXV [1785]

Notes:

Signatures: A⁶.

Caption title.

Woodcut head-piece.

Imprint from colophon.

Signed at end: Le M.al de Castries.

"Grants subsidies to French fisheries to enable them to compete with U.S. and other suppliers of dried cod to the French West Indies." Cf. Echeverria & Wilkie.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 13 in a collection of 83 arrêts, édits, ordonnances, lettres, etc., concerning French colonies and trade in America, Africa, and the Far East; housed together in a slipcase with the spine title France Pamphlets 1775-1785.

Cited in:

Echeverria & Wilkie. The French Image of America, 785/34

Wroth & Annan. Acts of French Royal Administration, 2010

Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 2297

OCLC:

783597119