This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... EDICT OF THE KING, DECREEING THE SUPPRESSION OF CRAFT-GUILDS. (GIVEN AT VERSAILLES IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 1776, REGISTERED MARCH 12, AT A BED OF JUSTICE) Louis, etc. We owe it to our subjects to assure them the full and complete enjoyment of their rights; we owe that protection especially to that ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ... EDICT OF THE KING, DECREEING THE SUPPRESSION OF CRAFT-GUILDS. (GIVEN AT VERSAILLES IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 1776, REGISTERED MARCH 12, AT A BED OF JUSTICE) Louis, etc. We owe it to our subjects to assure them the full and complete enjoyment of their rights; we owe that protection especially to that class of men who, possessing nothing but their labor and industry, above all others have the need and right of employing to the limit of their capacity their sole resources for subsistence. We have viewed with pain the multiplied blows which have been struck at this natural and common right of ancient institutions, blows which neither time, nor opinion, nor even the acts emanating from the authority, which seems to have sanctioned them, have been able to make legitimate. In nearly all the cities of our realm, the exercise of various arts and trades is concentrated in the hands of a small number of mailres incorporated in a guild, who may, to the exclusion of all other citizens, make or sell the particular objects of commerce of which they enjoy the exclusive privilege; consequently, those of our subjects who, by inclination or by necessity, desire to exercise the arts and trades, may do so only by acquiring the mastership {maitrise), to which they are ineligible until they have passed an apprenticeship as long and arduous as it is superfluous, and after they have satisfied claims and multiplied exactions by which a part of the money they sogreatly need to establish their trade or to open their shop, or even for their subsistence, they find consumed in sheer waste. Those who are so unfortunate as to be unable to meet these 182 [406 expenses are reduced to a precarious existence under the domination of mditres, condemned to waste their lives in...
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213 pp., facsimile text of the 1903 edition; maroon cloth, near fine, . -If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.
