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Auction 16 · Lot 106
(FRENCH JUDAICA)
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- $2,700
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
Place
v.p.
Publication
1790
Description
Lettres Patentes du Roi, sur un Décret de l’Assemblée Nationale, portant que les Juifs, connus en France sous le nom de Juifs Portugais, Espagnols & Avignonois, y jouiront des droits de Citoyen actif. Donnée á Paris, au mois de Janvier 1790 [Licences Document of the French King granting the Jews of France the rights of Active Citizens]. In French. Woodcut heraldic crest headpiece on recto of first leaf. pp. (4). Lightly browned. Unbound. 4to. Grenoble, De L’imprimerie Royale, 1790. *
summary
The ideas of the French Revolution- liberté, egalité & fraternité brought equal rights for thre 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