Chinki, histoire cochinchinoise, qui peut servir à d'autres pays.

A Londres, 1768. 96 pp. 8vo. Modern boards. Hartig & Soboul, p. 59; Arthur O. Lewis, Utopian Literature in the Pennsylvania State University Libraries, A Selected Bibliography: p. 47-8; Goldsmiths 10389 (other issue); Einaudi 1382; Higgs 4327; INED 1225; Weulersse, i, p. xxvi; not in Kress; not in Mattioli. First edition."A poorly disguised proposal for the improvement of French Society. In the end a good king abolishes feudal laws and restores industry, agriculture, and culture in general to their former higher levels" (Lewis.) The most important criticism on the Corps des Arts et Métiers before the reforms of Turgot. Cochinchina stands for France, Chinki for the French peasant, whose work is the most favourable to the nation, but who is crushed by the taxes and who suffers from the economic policy of the government. The author also recommends the emancipation of the Jews. With this subject is dealt with at length in chapter 21, where the Jews are called 'Banians'. At the time the work was also attributed to Voltaire and Clicquot de Blervache.