ARREST DU CONSEIL D'ESTAT DU ROY, QUI DECLARE LES CAFFES VENANS POUR LE COMPTE DE LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES, EXEMPTS DE TOUS DROITS DE PEAGES, & DES FERMES GENERALES. DU 20 AOUST 1726 [caption title]

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8pp. Quarto. Very minor foxing. Light soiling along spine edge on last page; small separation along bottom of spine. Contemporary inscription. Very good. A French royal decree exempting coffee from being taxed. "By this decree coffee, of which the Compagnie des Indes enjoys the monopoly, is exempt from Customs and duties" - Maggs. "The Compagnie des Indes flourished from 1726 to 1746, paying handsome dividends, and bringing wealth to the ports of Bordeaux, Nantes, Marseille, and, in particular, its home port of Lorient (L'Orient), although it lost its rights in the western hemisphere. It established trading offices in many parts of India, also Canton, Yemen, Persia, Basra and North Africa. The main sources of its wealth were porcelain, wallpapers, lacquer and tea from China, cotton and silk cloth from China and India, coffee from Mocha (Yemen), pepper from Mahé (South India), gold, ivory and slaves from West Africa" - Shakespeare. Wroth locates only one copy, in the John Crerar Library; OCLC identifies only one more, at the University of Minnesota. 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). MAGGS, FRENCH COLONISATION OF AMERICA 323 (this copy). WROTH, ACTS OF FRENCH ROYAL ADMINISTRATION 1129. OCLC 47950282. Howard Shakespeare, "The Compagnie des Indes" in the JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOND & SHARE SOCIETY (February 1997). N° de ref. del artículo WRCAM40678

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