Arrêt du Conseil d'État du Roi, concernant le commerce étranger dans les isles françoises de l'Amérique : du 30 août 1784 : extrait des registres du Conseil d'État.

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):

Foreign trade regulation--France.

Foreign trade regulation.

France.

Foreign trade regulation--West Indies.

West Indies.

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. 19 PU

Fingerprint:

nses res, e.E, S.IX (C) 1784 (R)

Place of Publication:

A Paris : De l'imprimerie royale, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Notes:

Caption title.

Woodcut head-piece.

Imprint from colophon.

Signatures: A⁶.

" This important decree significantly reversed a basic French colonial policy established in the 1727 Lettres Patentes (727/2) by allowing French West Indian planters to import from the U.S. and other foreign nations certain commodities essential to their economy ..." Cf. Echeverria & Wilkie. The French Image of America, (p.552-553).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 19 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, 784/32

Wroth & Annan. Acts of French Royal Administration, 1980

Sowerby, E.M. Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 2293

OCLC:

783613319