DARIGRAND, Edme-François.

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L'Anti-financier, ou relevé de quelques-unes des malversations dont se rendent journellement coupables les Fermiers-Généraux, Early edition of this denunciation of financial malpractice in the final decades of the ancien regime, which earned Edme-François Darigrand (c. 1735-1810) a stint in the Bastille for his troubles.Many 18th-century Dutch pamphlets, including this example, were published in a range of editions, and all of these are rare. Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands traces six separate editions of L'Anti-financier with an Amsterdam/1763 imprint.

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