Cartouches des noirs, 1783. Manuscript This ambitious French Creole planter

This ambitious French Creole planter from Grenada was instrumental in transforming Trinidad from a sparsely inhabited territory into a thriving plantation economy

While the text is newly set and largely akin to earlier editions

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

As noted by Lowengard

Olivier Grenouilleau

Cartouches des noirs, 1783. Manuscript This ambitious French Creole planterIdentification card for Black people in Paris France: Louis XVI (1774 1792); Charles La Croix Castries (1727 1801). Arrt du Conseil dtat du Roi, pour le renouvellement des cartouches des noirs & autres gens de couleur qui sont Paris. [colophon:] Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1783. 4. 4 pp. With a woodcut headpiece and a typographic oblong certificate with woodcut borders. A very rare copy of an example of an identification card for Black individuals in