[MEY (Claude) - MAULTROT - AUBRY] – MAXIMS OF FRENCH PUBLIC LAW. Drawn

[MEY (Claude) - MAULTROT - AUBRY]

MAXIMS OF FRENCH PUBLIC LAW. Drawn from the Capitularies, the Ordinances of the Kingdom, and other monuments of French History. Second edition, duplicate of the previous one.

Édition :

Amsterdam

Date :

1775

2 t. in 1 vol. in-4, full blond calfskin, gilt title on burgundy morocco, spine with five raised bands decorated with fleurons, friezes and double gilt fillets framing, gilt tools on the bands and underlining the headcaps, gilt roll on the edges, vignettes, red edges, (upper headcap torn, some scuffing on the covers, slight impact on the spine, corners bumped and edges slightly rubbed), interior perfectly preserved, 378 / 451 p.

L. Fonbaustier, in a series of lectures organized by the Lanjuinais Association of Rennes and devoted to "the modern state," considers these maxims as "rooted in the liberal tradition concerning the sovereignty of the people, the revocable delegation of power to magistrates, and the possibility of their removal: [they] thus occupy a very prominent place among the major references, even for the conciliarists and neo-conciliarists themselves." Dupin (ref. 950) indicates that the author "develops in this work, with immense erudition and unrestrained energy, the principles of all government in general, and those of the French government in particular. The flattery that emboldens despotism and the weakness that allows it to reign peacefully are combated with equal force. The work was initially a collaborative effort by Mey, Maultrot, and Aubry, members of a society of legal scholars, among whom I consider it a great honor to have been admitted." Mey held the pen, and from this came the first edition. Then Maultrot made many additions, which he sent to Blonde, then a fugitive in Holland; and from this came the second edition. Neither Moutblin nor Lauraguais had any part in it, as some bibliographers have suggested. Of these three worthy friends, Aubry died in Paris in January 1787; Claude Mey, born in Lyon on January 16, 1712, admitted to the bar in Paris on August 14, 1739, died on 24 Prairial, Year IV (June 15, 1796) in Sens; Gabriel-Nicolas Maultrot, of Paris, admitted to the bar on July 6, 1733, died in Paris in Ventôse, Year XI (March 18, 1803). Gabriel-Nicolas Maultrot, a lawyer at the Parliament of Paris, was born in 1733 and died in 1803, making him both a witness to and a participant in the political upheavals of 18th-century France. Linked to the Jansenist party, his reflections on the division of power within the Church extend to his analysis of the institutions of the monarchy. The second edition of *Maxims of French Law* was published after the conflict between René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714-1792), author of a significant judicial reform, and the Parliaments. This conflict was resolved by recalling the Parliaments and dismissing the minister upon the accession of Louis XVI (1754-1793). Maultrot's work emphasizes the necessary separation between politics and religion, between government and the State, and reiterates the control that the Nation must exercise over the sovereign, through its representative bodies, the Parliaments, and even the Estates-General. Although a radical opponent of absolutism and a defender of the rights of priests against the episcopate under the Ancien Régime, Gabriel Maultrot was a staunch opponent of the religious policies of the French Revolution (BNF ref. FRBNF30114835). Very rare copy bound in 1 volume.

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Mots-clés : Ancient Law - History of Law