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LOT 293:
Formal Decree from the King of France regarding the Rights of the Jews – Annulment of Taxes Imposed on the Jews of ...
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Formal Decree from the King of France regarding the Rights of the Jews – Annulment of Taxes Imposed on the Jews of France – Nantes, 1790
Lettres-Patentes du Roi. Official decree on behalf of Louis the XVI, King of France. Nantes: J. Malassis, 1790. French.
Decree annulling the annual tax totaling 20,000 livres imposed on the Jews of Metz, as well as other taxes imposed on the Jews of France, according to a resolution of the French National Assembly from July 20, 1790.
Printed at the top of the first page is a woodcut.
This decree was published about a year after the outbreak of the French Revolution, at a time when France underwent radical changes in social and governmental arrangements, and was part of a process that culminated in 1791, when the Jews of France were granted equal rights.
3 pp (folded leaf), 26.5 cm. Good condition. Stains and blemishes. Holes and tears (mostly small). One tear with damage to text.
