DES ESSART (Nicolas-Toussaint Le Moyne) – UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF POLICE
DES ESSART (Nicolas-Toussaint Le Moyne) – UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF POLICE
DES ESSART (Nicolas-Toussaint Le Moyne) – UNIVERSAL DICTIONARY OF POLICE
    DES ESSART (Nicolas-Toussaint Le Moyne)
    UNIVERSAL POLICE DICTIONARY
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1786-1790
    8 vols. in-4, ivory boards, black title and volume labels, smooth spine, red edges, (title labels missing or damaged, some foxing, corners slightly bumped).
    The fate of this text, intended to be the new Delamarre, is astonishing. It dealt with all the public regulations implemented during the 18th century, placing them particularly under the auspices of the modernizations carried out during the reign of Louis XVI. It began publication in 1786, dedicated to a State Councilor on the Royal Council, Mr. Lenoir, and reached its final volume in 1790. In this final volume, the author explains, “At a time when the regeneration of liberty and the rights of citizens attracts and holds the attention of all men with such justifiable reason… it must be permitted for a jurist who has devoted 20 years of his life to the study of police laws to speak of the influence of this power on public happiness and of the necessity of eradicating all traces of a regime invented and sustained by force to crush weakness.” In truth, the author did not go beyond the eighth volume, published in 1790, and thus interrupted his text after the entry for “police.” Beyond the impact of political events on the drafting of the text, it must be emphasized that this is the last attempt to theorize the public law of the Ancien Régime. In this respect, the 300 pages devoted to the word 'police' in the final volume constitute a major work in itself. Like Delamarre's, it contains curiosities, such as descriptions of the regulations governing all professions (perfumer, wigmaker, butcher, etc.) as well as all the institutions responsible for guaranteeing public safety and health (note in this regard the very long article devoted to the problems of lightning and the instrument capable of channeling its flow, "the lightning conductor," which, to our knowledge, is the first legal study dedicated to this subject). This text is very rare (missing from Berkeley and Harvard, with only one complete copy at the Bibliothèque nationale de France), and although presented in a working binding whose title pieces have not aged well, our copy is in good condition, both in terms of binding and interior.

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