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François Nicolas Mollien, Mémoires d'un ministre du Trésor p - Lot 166
François Nicolas Mollien, Mémoires d'un ministre du Trésor public. 1780 -1815. Paris, Imprimerie de H. Fournier et Cie, 1845. 4 vol. in-8 of (4)-480 pp. ; (4)-411 pp. ; (4)-516 pp. ; (4)-514 pp., demi-chagrin lie de vin à coins, dos à nerfs, tête dorée (contemporary binding). Original edition of the memoirs of François-Nicolas Mollien (1758-1850), written from 1817 onwards in order to justify himself: table of the financial situation of France at the time of Bonaparte's advent, interviews and correspondence with Napoleon, financial principles he followed, studies of budgets, the effect of the continental system, financing of wars, attitude of public opinion to taxes. The work ends with a discussion of the situation of the general treasury of the imperial treasury and a refutation of the "alleged embezzlement of the imperial government denounced in July 1814". Tullard, 1034: "Remarkable memoirs whose consultation is indispensable for the internal history of the Empire". The figure "CA" on the title. A few pale freckles; a small snag in a headdress.
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