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L'Ami des loix
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- [France] : [publisher not identified], [between 1771 and 1775]
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- 32 pages ; 22 cm (octavo)
- OCLC
- ocm28433595
- Barbier and Peignot attribute work to Jacques-Claude Martin de Mariveaux.
- In opposition to Louis XV's claims to divine right powers (the edict of December 1770) and in support of a representative legislature. Book was ordered to be burned June 30, 1775. cf. Hippolyte Monin, L'état de Paris en 1789, p. 179.
- Latin epigraph: Omne maul nascens facile opprimitur; inveteratum, fit plerumque robustius -- Cicer.
- Martin & Walter 23290
- Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, vol. 1, 133.
- Peignot. Dict. des livres condamnez, vol. 1, 298.
- Also available on microform.