Discours prononce a l'Assemblee nationale, sur l'etat & les ressources des finances. Imprime par ordre de l'Assemblee.

[DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre Samuel (1739-1817)

Verlag: A Versailles, chez Baudouin 1789

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. IV,5-218p. With 6 folding tables. Uncut and unopened in modern half vellum, marbled sides. One line on page 111 made illegible, as is the case in other copies. Partly evenly browned. First edition. Dupont's speech before the National Assembly of September 24th 1789 on the financial and fiscal situation of France, one of the most important contributions to French financial history. Dupont outlines the enormous resources of France, including the great wealth of the church derived from its landed estates. Yet he emphasizes the necessity for far reaching tax reforms, including the tax exemptions for the clergy, the abolition of the corvee and internal duties. Instead he proposes a flat land tax, thus following the physiocratic principles. His speech is followed by a Projet du premier decret a rendre pour l'execution des vues exposes dans le discours precedent' and by a Fragment sur les privileges particuliers que le clerge s'etait attribues'.*INED 1601. Kress, B.1582. Einaudi 1663. Not in Goldsmiths' or Mattioli. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 20027

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