SAINT-DOMINGUE. - Ordinance creating a corps... - Lot 127 - Giquello

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SAINT-DOMINGUE. - Ordinance creating a corps... - Lot 127 - Giquello
SAINT-DOMINGUE. - Ordinance creating a corps of light troops, designated as the first Legion of S. Domingue. In Cap-Français, Marie, n.d. [1765]. In-8, paperback, gilt paper cover with colored floral motifs. One of the very first publications printed in Saint-Domingue. It comes from the presses of Antoine Marie, the prototypographer of the colony: endowed with the title of patented printer of the King for all the Isle of Saint-Domingue, he came to settle on the island and founded in 1764 the first printing house, located at Cap-Français. Another ordinance on the militia, also issued by d'Estaing, was published at the same time. The corps of light troops created on Saint-Domingue by Count d'Estaing, governor general of the island, was to consist of 263 whites and 285 mulattoes. Placed under his direct orders, this first legion was essentially to carry out marshal missions (hunting "brown negroes", arresting deserters, repressing vagrancy, etc.); among its functions, one can cite that of preventing the practice in any remote place of the kinds of assemblies called Calendas (voodoo rites). A paperback copy, as issued, in a charming polychrome paper cover with floral and foliage motifs.
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