[Tobacco]: [Compagnie d'Occident]:

$1,500 · Offered by William Reese Company

ARREST DU CONSEIL D'ESTAT DU ROY, POUR LA PRISE DE POSSESSION DE LA FERME GENERALE DU TABAC PAR LA COMPAGNIE D'OCCIDENT, SOUS LE NOM DE JEAN LADMIRAL. DU VINGT-SEPT SEPTEMBRE ... French royal decree relating to the monopoly of the tobacco trade. "A variant and unrecorded issue of Wroth 656, of which only one copy is known. This decree grants the tobacco monopoly for a period of nine years to Jean Ladmiral, acting on behalf of the Compagnie d'Occident" - Maggs. No copies in OCLC. Rare.From the library of Cardinal Etienne Charles de Lomenie de Brienne (1727-94), Minister of Louis XVI, Archbishop of Toulouse and of Sens. A friend of Voltaire and a member of the Académie Française, Brienne wielded significant power as head of the Finance Ministry, which earned him many enemies. He died in prison during the French Revolution, despite having renounced Catholicism in 1793 (presumably as an attempt to save his life).

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