TUBEUF (Pierre-François)

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TUBEUF (Pierre-François)
New brief for Sieur Tubeuf, Concessionnaire du Roi, des Mines de Charbon de terre, en Languedoc; against M. le Maréchal de Castries, Minister & Secretary of State. S.l.n.d. [at the end] : De l'Imprimerie de Grangé, 1786. In-4, bradel modern boards. First edition. "[...] a Trial which is the torment & the misfortune of my life." An entrepreneur of Norman origin, Pierre-François Tubeuf had obtained the concession to mine a portion of the Cévennes, Vivarais and Gard rhodanien, but the opposition of local landowners, supported by the marshal de Castries, who had his eye on the mining basin, caused his projects to fail; while his efforts brought him praise, his successes awakened envy: these thus demanded the revocation of the concession, a trial took place in 1782, and Castries reclaimed the mines for himself. After his failure in the Cévennes, Tubeuf left to settle in Virginia where he acquired new land concessions, and was killed by the Indians. A woodcut plate on the frontispiece gives the name and location of the various mines for which Tubeuf had obtained concessions, located in a perimeter between Aubenas, Uzès and Anduze. No copy of this edition appears to be listed in the CCFr.
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