PARIS - SLUDGE AND LANTERNS - Lot 207

Lot 207
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PARIS - SLUDGE AND LANTERNS - Lot 207
PARIS - SLUDGE AND LANTERNS Rare printed and handwritten tax notice, Paris, 1744 and 1745. In-folio piece on laid paper, printed and completed in ink, with period handwritten annotations on front and back. A beautiful and rare document relating to the annual tax for maintaining public lanterns and cleaning the streets and suburbs of Paris, the famous "boues et lanternes" tax introduced under the Ancien Régime to finance urban lighting and roads. The document bears the following heading: "Extrait du Rolle d'imposition annuelle... pour l'entretien des Lanternes & le nettoiement des Rues de la Ville & Fauxbourgs de Paris". and concerns the Saint-Denis / rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis district, with amounts due for the years 1744 and 1745, totaled by hand. The reverse bears a handwritten note concerning a receipt for mud and lanterns, specifying the house concerned. A very fine copy of a document emblematic of the administrative and urban history of Paris in the 18th century.
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