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L`Extrait des messieurs

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Lot 65 | L'Extrait des messieurs
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L'Extrait des messieurs

François-Joseph Cugnet, 1772-1773

[CUGNET, François-Joseph (1720-1789), and others.] An Abstract of those Parts of the Custom of the Viscounty and Provostship of Paris, which were received and practiced in the Province of Quebec, in the Time of the French Government. 1772. — The Sequel of the Abstract of those Parts of The Custom of the Viscounty and Provostship of Paris. 1773 — An Abstract of the Criminal Laws That were in Force in the Province of Quebec in the Time of the French Government. 1773. — An Abstract of the Several Royal Edicts and Declarations... that were in force in the Province of Quebec in the Time of the French Government. 1772. — An Abstract of the Loix de Police. 1772. London: Charles Eyre and William Strahan, 1772-1773.



First edition of the important "Extraits des Messieurs." Gagnon says that this work was done by François Cugnet, Jacrau du Seminaire de Québec, Pressard, Deschenaux, and "by several other learned men familiar with the laws of Canada," who spent nearly three years at the task. "Our grandfathers called this volume 'l'extrait des messieurs'," says Gagnon: "it is thus often referred to by our historians." The titles only are in English, the text in French.



After the advent of British rule in Canada, Cugnet’s legal knowledge “also impressed the new attorney general, Francis Maseres, who considered him ‘a very ingenious and able Canadian gentleman … well acquainted with the Custom of Paris.’ Maseres found in Cugnet an associate competent to initiate him into the usages and customs of the Canadians and able to interpret the regulations of the former French administration” (DCB). Cugnet’s first efforts were criticized and he was then joined in his task by several others to create this work. “It was just after the publication of the Extrait des Messieurs that the celebrated quarrel occurred between Cugnet and Maseres which, for historian Thomas Chapais, had the appearance of a struggle in which Cugnet – ‘this Canadian by heart as well as by birth’ – figured as the ‘national champion’ for the defence and preservation of his compatriots’ rights” (ibid.). Rare: according to RBH this is the only copy to appear at auction in over 60 years. Gagnon 7; Sabin 66983, 66984, 66985 and 67061.



Five parts bound in in one volume, folio (310 x 192mm). (Some spotting and pale browning.) Contemporary calf (rebacked to style, some wear and scuffing). Provenance: Marquis of Stafford (bookplate) – Christie's New York, 19 May 2011, lot 101 – Ernest E. Keet (bookplate).

Artist:François-Joseph Cugnet (1720 - 1789)
Place of origin:Canada
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