Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Caisse generale des amortissements etablie par Edit du Mois de Decembre 1764 ,
Date (inclusive): 1766-1775
Collection number: Special Collections M0301
Creator:
France. Sovereigns, etc., 1715-1774 (Louis XV
Extent:
4 linear ft.
Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
None.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Provenance
Purchased, 1977
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Caisse generale des amortissements etablie par Edit du Mois de Decembre 1764 , M0301, Dept. of Special
Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Scope and Content
These are the records of a fund operated between 1764 and 1770 to receive a tax on "rentiers" by which "rentes" themselves
were to be reimbursed, thus relieving the burden of bond repayment which otherwise fell on ordinary crown revenues.