An historical account of the antient parliaments of France, or States-general of the kingdom : in fourteen letters, shewing the quality of the members that composed those assemblies, the form of their deliberations and proceedings, the vast extent of their power, their most celebrated judgments, the characters of the princes that called them, from Charlemagne to Louis XI, and the several perfidious artifices and steps of the French kings and their ministers, for gradually reducing the nation from a plenitude, to its present state of servitude and slavery
Subtitle: to which is added a chronological abridgment of the history of France under the reigns of the kings of the first race
By: the whole written in French by ... Count de Boulainvilliers, the merit of whose works has caused them to be prohibited in France ; and now translated ... by Charles Forman, esq.
Contributors: Forman, Charles, fl. 1728, tr.; Brindley, John, d. 1758, bookseller.; Forster, W., signer.
Publisher: Printed for J. Brindley in New-Bond-Street, Bookseller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
Published: 1739
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; fre
Subjects: France. -- Etats généraux.; France -- Politics and government -- Early works to 1800.; France -- History -- To 987 -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Title printed in red and black.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Signatures: vol. 1: a-b8, c4, B-Bb8, Cc2; vol. 2: [A]4, B-Dd8, Ee4.

Errata at end of each vol.

Includes printed marginalia.

Includes index in each vol.

WSU MASC copy signed on title page of each vol.: "W Forster".

WSU MASC copy is: 002-103519393, v. 1 ; 002-103922407, v. 2.