BERRY. MANUSCRIT. - Lot 79

Lot n° 79
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BERRY. MANUSCRIT. - Lot 79
BERRY. MANUSCRIT. MEMOIRES on the generality of Bourges. (Bourges), (ca 1700). Small in folio, (1) f. (title), 45 numbered leaves written recto and verso, (1) blank f. between f. 10 and 11. Eighteenth-century fawn half-basin, 6-ribbed spine, havana and green titles, richly ornamented caissons, untrimmed (spine faded and a little rubbed, corners dulled, boards soiled, corners and edges rubbed, small wormholes on lower corner, light foxing on a few pp.). Carefully handwritten copy of a memoir written around 1698 at the request of Louis François d'Y de Séraucourt, Intendant de la Génalité de Bourges. Testifies to the state of the region at the time: ecclesiastical state, military government, justice, as well as finances, focusing in particular on tailles et gabelles and royal revenues in the Généralité. It also provides an overview of trade and manufacturing, as well as details of local elections (La Charité, Issoudun, Saint-Amand and La Châtre). Finally, it discusses the presence of the Reformed religion and mentions information concerning the nobility. CHER. LOIRE.
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