Mémoires Présentés A Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orléans, Contenant les moyens de rendre ce Royaume très- puissant, & d'augmenter considérablement les revenus du Roy & du Peuple.

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Mémoires Présentés A Monseigneur Le Duc D'Orléans, Contenant les moyens de rendre ce Royaume très- puissant, & d'augmenter considérablement les revenus du Roy & du Peuple. BOULAINVILLIERS, Henri, Comte De 1658-1722. The Hague & Amsterdam: 'Aux dépens de la Compagnie', 1727. 1st Edition. 2 Volumes in 1. 12mo. pp. 6, 158, 2,230, 2 table & errata. " An extended version of the economic sections of Boulainvilliers État de la France, also published posthumously, in 1727-28. Here Boulainvilliers presents a critique of France's financial ills, with proposals for their remedy. Several of the 'mémoires' are still of particular interest, including the second, directed against the 'financiers' and proposing a state-treasurer's office, the third, against arbitrary taxation, the fifth, against excessive salt-tax, and the sixth, against disorderly financial administration in general. A French aristocrat and political and historical writer, Boulainvilliers was a great admirer of feudalism and 'feudal liberty'. His works on finance were not published until after his death and were prohibited in France. Boulainvilliers's works were all published after his death, mostly in Holland or under Dutch imprint, and were forbidden in France.Henri de Boulainvilliers (1658-1722) was an eclectic philosopher, a historian, an astrologer with scientific pretensions, and a freethinker in religion. The coherence of his works lay in a dramatic effort to reconcile the principles and culture of the nobility with the social, political and cultural tendencies of the modern world. In his early years, his encounter with Baruch de Spinoza's Ethics was decisive. After translating that text into French, he wrote an Essai de Métaphysique that was intended to lift the burden of "mathematical dryness" from Spinoza's thought. Boulainvilliers was one of the aristocratic fathers of the Enlightenment. The philosophes read Spinoza through the intermediary of the Essai de Métaphysique . Voltaire used Boulainvillier's name to symbolize free thought in his Diner du Comte de Boulainvilliers. His historical studies influenced Montesquieu and were debated throughout the century Cioranescu 13383. Coquelin & Guillaumin I p. 194. Goldsmiths' 6532. Kress 3678. Palgrave I pp. 170-71. ". N° de ref. del artículo 004452

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