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[MORELLET.] [drop-head title:] Eclaircissemens, sur le Mémoire de M. l’Abbé Morelet [sic], concernant la partie historique de la Compagnie des lndes, & l’origine du bien des Actionnaires.

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First edition of an anonymous contemporary reply to Morellet’s Mémoire sur la situation actuelle de la Compagnie des Indes (1769), in which the Abbé had given a succinct history of the Compagnie and shown how its directors were benefitting to the detriment of the state.

Kress 6634; not in Goldsmiths’.

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