Lettres patentes du Roi, sur le decret de l’Assemblee Nationale, du 20 Juillet dernier, potent supression des droits d’ habitation, de protection,de tolerance& de redevances semblabes sur les Juifs. Donee a Saint-Cloud
AUCTION 21 |
Thursday, December 04th,
2003 at 1:00
Kestenbaum & Company Holds Inaugural Auction of Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts at Their New Galleries
Lot 78
(FRENCH JUDAICA)
Lettres patentes du Roi, sur le decret de l’Assemblee Nationale, du 20 Juillet dernier, potent supression des droits d’ habitation, de protection,de tolerance& de redevances semblabes sur les Juifs. Donee a Saint-Cloud
Aix: Gibeln and Emeric-David 1790
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
The ideas of the French Revolution- “liberté, egalité et fraternité” brought equal rights for the Jews of France and the abolition of particular taxes levied against them for generations. The grant of rights of active citizenship to French Jews followed an appeal made by de Talleyrand in Paris 1790 This document was issued both as a broadside and as a pamphlet (See Kestenbaum & Company, Sale XVI: Important Hebrew Printed Books & Manuscripts from the Library of the London Beth Din (Fourth Portion), 25th June, 2002, Lot 106