Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'Etat
Subtitle: ouvrage posthume, composé en 1778.
Contributors: Mirabeau, Jean-Antoine-Joseph-Charles-Elzéar de Riquetti, chevalier de, 1717-1794.; Clavière, Étienne, 1735-1793.; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: [s.n]
Published: 1782
Place of publication: A Hambourg
Language: fre
Subjects: Lettres de cachet -- Early works to 1800; Prisons -- France -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Barbier, A.A.  Ouvrages anonymes, II, columns 1246-1247
Martin & Walter.  Révolution française, III, 24458
BN, CXV, column 822
Thacher, II, p. 66 (French Revolution)
Also attributed to le bailli de Mirabeau (Mirabeau's uncle) and to E. Clavière. Cf. Barbier. However, both BN and Martin & Walter attribute this work solely to the comte de Mirabeau.
"Ouvrage posthume": the prison no longer existed. Mirabeau was freed in 1780; in 1778 he was at Vincennes. Cf. Barbier.
Vol. 1: [2], xiv, 366, [2] p.; v. 2: 237, [3] p. (last leaf blank).
Errata: v. 1, p. [1] at end.