Bidspirit auction | (FRANCE). Lettres Patentes du Roi,

(FRANCE). Lettres Patentes du Roi, sur un Décret de l’Assemblée Nationale, portant que les Juifs, connus en France sous le nom de Juifs Portugais, Espagnols & Avignonois, y jouiront des droits de Citoyen actif. Donnée á Paris, au mois de Janvier 1790. pp. 4. Unbound. 4to. Rouen, 1790. The newly created French National Assembly threw open the doors of the Revolution by approving “The Declaration of the Rights of Man.” Though freedom and equality were sought for all, this did not include the Jews. It was only a few months later that King Louis XVI under political pressure issued the present Lettres-patentes granting equal rights to Jews - albeit only Sephardic Jews, that is, those of Spanish or Portuguese extraction.