Précis pour la Compagnie du Sénégal
Contributors: France. Assemblée nationale constituante (1789-1791)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1790
Place of publication: Paris?
Language: fre
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Commerce; Compagnie du Sénégal; Trading companies
Notes: Caption title.

Signed on p. 10: Fraisse, administrateur-directeur.

Suggested attribution to Ch. Fraisse supplied by the Catalogue collectif de France.

An application to the National Assembly for continuation of a concession; also serves as a testimony of the difficulties encountered by the Compagnie du Sénégal during the first years of the Revolution.

"Extrait du rapport des commissaires, fait à l'Assemblée générale des actionnaires de la Compagnie du Sénégal, le 30 janvier 1790" and "Extrait des délibérations de ladite Assemblée générale des actionnaires de la Compagnie du Sénégal, du samedi 6 mars 1790": p. 11, are signed: Pour copie comforme à l'orginal, par procuration de la Compagnie du Sénégal, Fraisse, administrateur-directeur.

The Compagnie du Sénégal was established in in 1673, following the liquidation of the Compagnie des Indes occidentales.

Senegal was conquered by the English in 1756. During the American Revolutionary Wars, the French took the opportunity to retake Senegal and the Gambia. At the conclusion of the war in 1783, Senegal was returned to the French, whilst Gambia was restored to the British. The British would once more occupy Senegal as a consequence of the Napoleonic Wars from 1809 to 1816.

Signatures: A⁶ (A6 verso blank)

Engraved head piece.

Purchase; 2016; 17-163.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern blue paper-covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.