[LALOURCE], Mémoire à consulter et consultation pour Jean Lioncy, 1761
[LALOURCE, Jean-Charlemagne].
Mémoire à consulter et consultation pour Jean Lioncy, créancier & syndic de la Masse de la raison de commerce établie à Marseille, sous le nom de Lioncy frères & Gouffre, contre le corps et société des PP. Jésuites.
[Paris], P. Alex. Le Prieur, 1761.
12mo (167x97 mm), (4)-531-(2) pages. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt flat spine. Spine with arms (three lions heads). Gilt covers. Slighlty rubbed.
First edition.
Memoir on the financial scandal that affected Antoine Lavalette, a Jesuit missionary priest in Martinique. To restore the treasury of the Jesuit mission in Martinique, he set up some commercial operations which failed and was heavily indebted to the sieurs Lioncy and Gouffre, merchants from Marseille. They obtained justice from the tribunal of Aix, but the Parliament of Paris took up the case and used it as a pretext to proclaim the banishment of the Society of Jesus from France in 1762.
Price : 350 €