‎BONCERF, (P.F.)‎
‎De la nécessité et des moyens d'occuper avantageusement tous les gros ouvriers.‎

‎A Paris, De l'Imprimerie de Lottin l'aîné & J.R. Lottin, 1790. viii, 40 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Cf.: Martin & Walter 4024; INED 606; Kress S.5343; Goldsmiths 13965. Second edition, largely expanded, first published in 1789, with 16 pages only. On the expense and danger to public order of unemployed workmen, formerly employed in public works, with suggestions for their employment. Includes an extensive table: Etat des matières du sol, & des fabriques étrangères importées dans le royaume, pendant l'année 1788, & que la France peur obtenir pour la plus grande partie de son sol & de ses fabriques, si les opérations qu'on a indiquées sont faites, même en partie.Pierre-François Boncerf, French writer on agrarian subjects. While a clerk in the ministry of finance under Turgot he published a pamphlet, Les inconvénients des droits féodaux. According to Palgrave the work was published with the consent of Turgot. In it he attacked the contemporary system of feudal dues as ruinous to those who pay them, of little advantage to its benificiaries and contrary to the principles of freedom. - Slightly browned, name in blank portion of title-page erased, some pencil underlinings in the text. ‎

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