Jean de Beaufort The Treasury of the Treasures of France, st - Lot 111

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Jean de Beaufort The Treasury of the Treasures of France, st - Lot 111
Jean de Beaufort The Treasury of the Treasures of France, stolen from the Crown, by the incognito forgeries, artifices & suppositions committed by the principal Officers of Finance. Discovered & presented to King Louys XIII in the assembly of his Estates General held in Paris in 1615. By Jean de Beaufort Parisian. With the means to withdraw several millions of gold, & relieve his people in the future. Without place, 1615. In-12 of 180 pp., modern cardboard. Testimony on the misappropriations of the King's finance officers delivered on the occasion of the Estates General of 1614: the clerk Jean de Beaufort, who had already distinguished himself under Henry IV by his stubborn fight against the embezzlement of financiers, gives here not only precise lists of names (accountants, auditors, controllers), but also a set of quotations ("de trois cens acquits faulx, montans six cens milliures, estans ès liasses de la Chambre, rapportez sur les comptes - pages 88-89). Showing the dramatic consequences of this "public" corruption in France, Beaufort advocated the holding of a special chamber of justice with the mission of making the financiers give back their throats. This book, which had a huge impact on the denounced as well as on the Parliament and the deputies of the States, provoked a polemic that lasted until 1618, and provoked answers from the author. Kress 338; Goldsmiths 441-2; Einaudi, 371 (an edition in 174 pp. on the same date); Bourgeois & André, 2127; Brunet I, 715.
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