Restoration Of 1814—set Of 34 Parliamentary Pamphlets On Emigrants' Property

A collection of 34 brochures, reports, opinions, observations, and petitions printed in 1814.
during the First Restoration, devoted primarily to the bill concerning the restitution or return of unsold property belonging to émigrés following the French Revolution.
This collection provides a record of the debates held in the Chamber of Peers during the months of October, November, and December 1814.
It includes the Bédoch report of October 17, as well as numerous opinions from deputies, including Dumolard, Goulard, Lalouette, Duclaux, Lefèvre-Gineau, Laborde, Anglès, Cardonnel, Faget de Baure, the Count of Perrigny, Field Marshal Augier, and Verneilh-Puiraseau.
The section pertaining to the Chamber of Peers includes the opinion of Marshal Duke of Taranto, Jacques Macdonald, from the session of December 3, 1814—a complete 13-page copy.
The opinion of the Duke of Valentinois, the future Honoré V of Monaco, complete in 14 pages, as well as the report by the Count of Pastoret, prepared on behalf of the special commission tasked with examining the bill on the transfer of unsold property belonging to émigrés, session of December 3, 1814, complete with 48 pages.
The collection also includes observations in favor of purchasers of emigrants’ property and in favor of the emigrants themselves by Mr. Baroud, former attorney at the Parliament and the courts of Lyon, Paris, L-G Michaud, printer to the king, 1814.
Complete copy, 16 pages; text dated August 20, 1814.

Also of note is the petition to the deputies of the departments by Paul-Antoine-Maximilien-Casimir de Quélen de La Vauguyon-Carency, dated October 23, 1814, complete in 7 pages. In it, the author discusses his family’s property, Bonaparte, Joachim Murat, and the consequences of the revolutionary and imperial confiscations.

Two brochures from the Chamber of Peers concern the king’s proposal regarding grain exports, from the session of November 10, 1814, and provide insight into the parliamentary context of that same session.

Most of the documents were printed by order of the Chamber; some were printed by P. Didot the Elder, printer to the king and the Chamber of Peers.
Numerous old handwritten notes reading “émigrés” at the top of the booklets, corresponding to a former thematic classification.
Formats generally range from 21 x 13 cm to 21 x 14 cm.
The Vauguyon-Carency petition measures approximately 25 x 20 cm and has an old horizontal fold in the center.
The collection is preserved in its original condition and exhibits imperfections such as creases, stains, and marginal damage, varying by document.
The petition from Count Cornudet is in particularly poor condition, with tears, missing sections, and damage to the text on the last page, among other issues (see photo).