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Loménie de Brienne Collection

This collection of French royal administrative acts, covering the period 1212-1796, and printed between ca. 1550-1796, consists of approximately 30,000 pamphlets originally from the library of Etienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, Minister of Finance under Louis XVI. These include édits, ordonnances, déclarations, arrêts, réglements, etc. on a wide variety of topics, including: press law, guilds, tariffs, wine and wine-making, weights and measures, food law and legislation, taxation, trade, etc. The bulk of these materials cover the eighteenth century.

Subject access to these documents is available through the "Catalogue général des livres imprimés de la bibliothèque nationale. Actes royaux" (Paris : Impr. Nationale, 1910-) and French royal and administrative acts, 1256-1794: a subject guide to the New York Public Library collection of 16,000 pamphlets now on microfilm (New York: the Library, 1978).