De l'ensemble, ou essai sur les grands principes de l'administration.

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. 2 volumes. [IV],456; [IV],348p. Contemp. calf, gilt backs, sides with gilt double-line borders and small central coat of arms, marbled endpapers. First (only) edition. A very rare work on public administration which contains a vast program of reforms. It deals with all aspects of governmental science and public welfare. The author treats public morality and moral education, with particular attention for the education of women, and improvements to introduce in the legislation and the administration of justice. An important part of the work is dedicated to urgently needed reforms to be made in public finance. He discusses the injustice and detrimental effects of so many of the existing taxes and proposes the introduction of a single tax. The second volume treats the 'physical' part of public administration, the promotion of commerce and trade, with chapters on improvements to be made in the army, statute labour, the road-system and river works, the police, the facilities for travellers, postal services, etc. The author also gives suggestions for the local administration on subjects like public health, clean water, loan-offices, fire-service, hospitals, town planning, cemeteries, etc. He ends his work with a discussion of the monarchy with a proposal for the installation of a supreme council. We were unable to find any information about the author, other than that he has been suggested (together with G.J.B.Target and P.A.Torne) as the author of a somewhat similar work ( L'Esprit des Cahiers', see INED 4277 for a long notice), published in 1789 and presented to the States General. *INED 4317. Not in Kress, Goldsmiths' or Einaudi. N° de ref. del artículo 31243

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