FRENCH MANUFACTURE OF BONNETS FOR LEVANT

[French industry and colonialism] [France. Conseil d'Etat:] Arrest du Conseil d'État du Roi, qui accorde à tous ceux qui auront fabriqué ou fait fabriquer dans le royaume des Bonnets à l'imitation de ceux de Tunis, une gratification de dix sous par chaque douzaine desdits Bonnets. Du 17 Septembre 1764. Extrait des Registres du Conseil d'État. [colophon:] A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale 1764.

An offer of economic stimulus for imitation Tunisian bonnets made in Marseilles, Nay in Béarn and the Orléanois, "which have been well-received in the Levant". The French government will pay ten sous to the manufacturer or exporter for each dozen made. The legislation's five articles explain exactly how this stimulus is to be administrated.

Details

4to., pp. 3 [1]. Disbound. Woodcut decoration at head of first page. Light browning, tiny touch of tear and rumpling at outer margin (blank), good. The two leaves foliated, in MS, 41 and 42, MS letter D to p. 1.

OCLC (01/18) shows copies at Laval (QC) and BNF (both Lille imprint).