Mémoire / des habitans & négocians de la / Louysiane
Subtitle: sur l'événement du 29 / october 1768
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Nouvelle Orléans
Language: fre
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: History; Politics and government
Notes: Signatures: A-L⁴, M² (last leaf blank)

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To the Mémoire stating the grievances, and justifying the revolt against the Spanish government (p. 1-48) is subjoined the decree (arrêt) of the Conseil supérieur, October 29, 1768, ordering, in response to the citizen's petition and the plea of the Procureur-général (Lafrénière), the expulsion of Ulloa. It is signed "Par le Conseil. Garic, greffier en chef.--Avec permission de m. l'Ordonnateur".

The Mémoire at p. 38, lines 6-10 contains the phrase "... politique-espagnole, douce & insinuante dans le principe, & tyrannique seulement lorsque le joug est imposé" on account of which 300 copies of the folio edition (21 pages) with the imprint, at end, of Denis Braud, issued on November 23, 1768 has been suppressed by the French military governor (commandant) Aubry--in copies issued later the modified passage reads "... politique ... nous forçant par sa tirannie à redouter tout gouvernement espagnol". All copies that could be found were later destroyed (October 26, 1769). Ulloa believed Lafrénière to be the author; according to Aubry and the acts of the trial (1769) Pierre Caresse drew up the petition to the Conseil supérieur and furnished the material the Julien Jérome Doucet, who composed the Mémoire, which derives much from Lafrénière's arguments before the council. cf. Gayarre, Hist. of Louisiana, v. 2; Fortier, Hist. of Louis., 1904, v. 1, p. 175-227; and D. C. McMurtrie, Early printing in New Orleans, 1929, p. 89, no. 5 and 6, to whom this edition is unknown.