Rapport fait au nom du Comité des Finances, sur les moyens de remplacer la Gabelle, & de rétablir le niveau entre les recettes & les dépenses ordinaires de l'année 1790.

A Paris, Chez Baudouin, 1790. (2), 86 pp. 8vo. Modern half morocco, gilt lettering to spine, marbled boards. Schelle 41d; Kress B.1833; Goldsmiths 14301; Einaudi 1679; Martin & Walter 12189; Stourm 167. First edition of one the important writings of Dupont during the revolutionary period. 'Travail ou sont étudiés les principes fiscaux et l'ensemble de la situation financière ..... On y trouve un exposé intéressant du Fonctionnement de l'ancienne gabelle' (Stourm). "It was not so much his physiocratic doctrine as his general grasp of macroeconomics that led Du Pont to take a strong stand against the Revolutionary government's growing resort to the issuance of paper money. In March 1790 he prepared a report (this work) for the Committee on Finance, which warned against the Assembly's resort to financing revolution through the use of paper money. An an alternative to printing money Du Pont recommended that the government reduce a proportion of its increases in spending on new prpgrams and that it temporarily retain, though at a reduced rate, the taxes on salt, bouillon, and furs, which it was about to abolish. If any deficit remained in the government's budget after these actions, it was to be made up by a surcharge on all other remaining taxes" (James J. McLain, The Economic Writings of Du Pont de Nemours, p. 148).