Memoire et consultation
By: pour Jean-Gaspard Vence, ci-devant capitaine de Port à la Grenade, nommé par le Roi chevalier de Saint-Louis, le 24 janvier 1780, appellant d'une sentence des juge-consuls de Paris; contre le sieur Doré, intimé
Contributors: Doré, sieur
Publisher: Chez N.H. Nyon, imprimeur de Parlement, rue Mignon Saint-André-des-Arcs
Published: 1787
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 45
Notes: The author tells of his early life sailing in the service of France to places such as Saint-Domingue, Angola and Brazil. An officer in the French navy, he was commissioned as a privateer during the American Revolution by King Louis XVI. Vence received his assignment directly from the United States Congress and fought with his ship and crew under the American flag. For more on the author's life, see Les vicissitudes d'un marin provençal: le Contre-Amiral Jean-Gaspard Vence (1747-1808) / Jean-Marc van Hille.

Signatures: pi² (-pi2) A-F (-F4) (F3 verso blank)

Engraved printer's ornament on title page; headpiece.