Plaidoyer pour les Jésuites de France.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | French |
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[Paris] :
De l'Imprimerie de Louis Cellot, rue Dauphine,
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| Item Description: | Name of printer and date of publication from colophon. Place of publication based on another quarto edition printed by Cellot in the same year. Signed on page 151: Monsieur Le Pelletier de Saint-Fargeau, avocat général; Me Thevenot d'Essaule, avocat; de Ligny, procureur. Father Antoine La Vallette, superior of the Martinique missions, managed these transactions with great success, and like secular proprietors of plantations he needed to borrow money to expand the large undeveloped resources of the colony. But on the outbreak of war with England, ships carrying goods of an estimated value of 2,000,000 livres were captured, and La Vallette suddenly went bankrupt for a very large sum. His creditors turned to the order's procurator at Paris to demand payment, but the procurator refused responsibility for the debts of an independent mission though he offered to negotiate for a settlement. The creditors went to the courts, and an order was made in 1760, obliging the Jesuits to pay, and giving leave to distrain in the case of non-payment. The fathers, on the advice of their lawyers, appealed to the Parlement of Paris. This turned out to be an imprudent step. For not only did the Parlement support the lower court, May 8, 1761, but having once gotten the case into its hands, the Jesuits' enemies in that assembly determined to strike a blow at the order. Lioncy frères & Gouffre were one of the firms suing the Jesuit order for monetary reimbursement. Signatures: A-F¹² (A1 verso blank) G⁴ (G4 verso blank). Engraved head pieces. Cf. Sabin, 63207. Cf. Carayon, P. Compagne de Jesus, 3453 The Cushing Library/Dawson French copy is bound with Memoire a consulter, et consultation pour les Jesuites de France. Paris? : s.n., 1761--Memoire pour les Jesuites des provinces de Champagne, Guyenne, Toulouse & Lyon / Etienne Michel le Peletier de Saint-Fargeau. Paris : Chardon, 1761--Memoires sur les demandes formées contre le géneral de la Société des Jesuites / Rouhette. Paris : s.n., 1761--Second memoire pour le sieur Cazotte et la demoiselle Fouque / Rouhette. S.I. : s.n., 1761. |
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| Physical Description: | 151 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 16 cm. (duodecimo) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Place of Publication: | France -- Paris. |