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[France. Louis XVI] Ordonnance du Roi, concernant les Consuls & autres Officiers de Sa Majesté, dans les Échelles du Levant & de Barbarie. De 9 Décembre 1776. De par le Roi. [colophon:] A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale 1776.

Rules reordering the system of French consuls in the Ottoman Empire (diplomats whose main duties were to represent, and try to extract taxes from French traders), for Izmir, the Peleponnese, Syria and Palestine, Egypt, Salonica, Chania, Cyprus and Aleppo, and unspecified vice-consuls - the points include their titles, remuneration, and secretaries. The legislation contains (item five) descriptions of both consuls' and vice-consuls' uniforms. The new rules are extended to cover French consuls in Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli, and Baghdad.

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Folio, pp. 6 [2]. Disbound. Last leaf blank. Title-page with pictorial head-piece and initial. Woodcut tail-piece. Very light browning, good.

Actes Royaux 39368. OCLC (01/18) shows copies at Mazarine and BNF.