(FRENCH JUDAICA)

Paris and Epinal

1790-91

Louis XVI. Lettres Patentes du Roi. WITH: Loi relative aux Juifs. (i) Paris, 1790: pp. 2 (+ pp. 2 blank), 11 x 8 inches. * (ii) Paris, November 1791: pp. 2 (+ pp. 2 blank), 9 x 7 inches. * (iii) Epinal, December, 1791: pp. 3 (+ p. 1 blank), 9 x 7 inches. Each act with its own elaborate headpiece.

THE EMANCIPATION OF FRENCH JEWRY: ANTICIPATED, RATIFIED, AND IMPLEMENTED IN THREE DOCUMENTS. “The National Assembly has decreed, on the 27th of September 1791… that all men adhering to the duties of the Constitution are given the advantages that it assures and revokes all delays, reserves and exceptions applying to individual Jews.” Among the most significant documents in the history of the Jewish people. The grant of full equality of rights to Jews opened the flood gates of the modern world to the Jews.