Edit du Roi...[“Edict of the King, Given at Versailles...Concerning the Nobility in Provence, Registered in Parliament

Estimate: $3,000–$4,000
Hammer price: Not recorded

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author

(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Place

(Paris)

Publication

1778

references

Szajkowski 1444. No copies in OCLC; not in Biblioteque Nationale

summary

Revokes a law of 1631 which discriminated against families who were suspected of being descendants or allies of “Jews, Saracens, Mohammedans, and other enemies of the Christian name.” Henceforth, these families are to be accepted in the nobility on the same grounds as all others

pp. 4. Unbound. 4to

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