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BRIANSIAUX DE MILLEVILLE, Jean-Louis (b.1727). Armemens en Course a Dunkerque, durant la Guerre de 1756 jusqu'en 1762. Paris: Michel Lambert, 1772.
2o (424 x 280 mm). Contemporary French red morocco, sides with triple-fillet gilt border, floral tools at the corners, surrounding central arms of Pierre-Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes [Olivier 70, variant], spine in seven compartments with six raised bands, gilt decorated with floral devices, morocco letteringpiece in the second. Provenance: Pierre-Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes (1718-1765), Minister of the Navy (binding).
APPARENTLY UNRECORDED, and presumably published at the author's expense. This work lists the names of the outfitters, the names of the corsairs, their captains, the number of cannon and their calibers, the quantity of their crews, the cost of outfitting the ship, the proceeds from the prizes, the amounts paid to the crews by Briansiaux and others. Though the names of the ships taken prize are not all mentioned, in several cases it is obvious they were returning from America, on account of their cargo (tobacco, sugar, etc.) One of the outfitters was the intendant at Dunkerque, the Canadian-born Michel Bégon, son of the Canadian intendant of the same name. Two of his ships were called the Saint-Michel and the Bégon.
One of the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years's War was that France, under the supervision of English engineers, would demolish her own maritime fortress of Dunkirk. Pitt himself had demanded the destruction, "not because it was any longer dangerous to England, but because the nation would regard its destruction 'as an eternal monument of the yoke imposed on France'" (Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, NY, 1983, p.1466).
With a very fine provenance: Pierre-Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes, Minister of the Navy from 1771-1774 and therefore with an historical interest in the operations at Dunkerque, is also remembered for his distinguished library: "Il avait amassée un nombre considéerable de livres imprimées et manuscrits dont la plupart étaient splendidement reliés et ornés" (Guignard, 1890, p.81). In 1772, Bourgeois de Boynes was called on by the Bishop of Blois to aid in the rehabilitation of François Bigot (see lot 256).
2o (424 x 280 mm). Contemporary French red morocco, sides with triple-fillet gilt border, floral tools at the corners, surrounding central arms of Pierre-Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes [Olivier 70, variant], spine in seven compartments with six raised bands, gilt decorated with floral devices, morocco letteringpiece in the second. Provenance: Pierre-Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes (1718-1765), Minister of the Navy (binding).
APPARENTLY UNRECORDED, and presumably published at the author's expense. This work lists the names of the outfitters, the names of the corsairs, their captains, the number of cannon and their calibers, the quantity of their crews, the cost of outfitting the ship, the proceeds from the prizes, the amounts paid to the crews by Briansiaux and others. Though the names of the ships taken prize are not all mentioned, in several cases it is obvious they were returning from America, on account of their cargo (tobacco, sugar, etc.) One of the outfitters was the intendant at Dunkerque, the Canadian-born Michel Bégon, son of the Canadian intendant of the same name. Two of his ships were called the Saint-Michel and the Bégon.
One of the stipulations of the Treaty of Paris ending the Seven Years's War was that France, under the supervision of English engineers, would demolish her own maritime fortress of Dunkirk. Pitt himself had demanded the destruction, "not because it was any longer dangerous to England, but because the nation would regard its destruction 'as an eternal monument of the yoke imposed on France'" (Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, NY, 1983, p.1466).
With a very fine provenance: Pierre-Étienne Bourgeois de Boynes, Minister of the Navy from 1771-1774 and therefore with an historical interest in the operations at Dunkerque, is also remembered for his distinguished library: "Il avait amassée un nombre considéerable de livres imprimées et manuscrits dont la plupart étaient splendidement reliés et ornés" (Guignard, 1890, p.81). In 1772, Bourgeois de Boynes was called on by the Bishop of Blois to aid in the rehabilitation of François Bigot (see lot 256).