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

Estimate

$1,500–$2,000

Hammer price

Not recorded

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author

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

printer

Gibeln and Emeric-David

Place

Aix

Publication

1790

summary

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

Broadside. Woodcut heraldic crest headpiece at top. 35.5 x 46 cm

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