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Diatribe to the Author of the Ephemerides. 1775. Genève, Et se trouve à Paris, Valleyre l'aîné, 1775. In-8, bradel modern cardboard. 27-page edition, published the same year as the original 32-page edition (Bengesco, n°1844). Letter addressed to Abbé Baudeau, director of the Éphémérides économiques, the journal of the physiocratic school. Voltaire here defends Turgot and the freedom of the grain trade, accusing the communities of monks of being at the origin of the popular revolts that have remained in history under the name of "guerre des farines". He denounces the condition of some farmers who have become slaves of convents. Handwritten bookplate at the bottom of the title, a little affected by the binder's knife: To Mr Laboissière, R. St. Honoré in Paris. Attached is the Arrêt du Conseil d'État du 19 août 1775 which suppressed this diatribe, judged scandalous and slanderous, contrary to the respect due to religion and its ministers, and forbade Valleyre to exercise the professions of bookseller and printer (3-page booklet in-4, modern hardback; cuffs cut by the binder's knife)
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