Report providing observations of a project seeking to detach the Pays de Gex from the five fermes
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CMV33235
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MS 31, ‘Gex’
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Report providing observations of a project seeking to detach the Pays de Gex from the five fermes
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Pour juger sainenement des avantages a des inconvénients qui peuvent resulter de ce project; Il faut lexamine relativement a la ferme generale, relativement au pain, relativement a la république de Genêve, a enfin relativement a linterét du Roy.
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Document headed ‘Observations sur le projet de détacher le païs de Gex des cinq grosses fermes et d’en retirer tous les employés qui y sont actuellement Etablis’. Endorsed ‘No. 2435’, ‘Pais de Gex’ and ’12 juin 1754′.
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A report providing observations of a project seeking to detach the Pays de Gex from the five large farms [Les gabelles, L’octroi de Paris, Les droits de traits, La ferme du tabac created in 1674-5, and Le ferme d’Occident also created in 1674-1675], and to remove all employees currently established there.
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9 ff.
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315 x 205 mm
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1
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Each of the sheets of paper are watermarked with the Lion of Orange [Willem the Stadtholder of Holland] beside the allegorical embodiment of Holland as a female figure seated and holding a spear topped with the Cap of Liberty. The pair are defending a space surrounded by a palisade. Above them are the words ‘Pro Patria’ and to the side are the initials ‘VdL’. This suggests that the paper was made by the Dutch papermaker Pieter van der Ley (1665-1765) who set up a papermill in Zaandijk, Holland in 1665.
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The manuscript is bound in blue ribbon along the bifolium fold line, similar to that of Votlaire Foundation MS 24. There is a small flap on the back of the manuscript, similar to those of Voltaire Foundation MS 29. There are small holes in the left-hand margin of p.13 and in the bottom centre of p.15 between l.18-19.
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