Histoire du Parlement de Tournay, contenant l'établissement et les progrès de ce Tribunal avec un détail des Edits, Ordonnances et Réglemens concernants la justice y envoyez.

First edition. A fine portrait at the frontispiece of Louis François de Boufflers by Hyacinthe Rigaud engraved by Thomassin.
Contemporary full calf binding. Richly decorated raised spine. Red morocco title label. 2 corners worn. Light yellow dampstaining at beginning of work on first 3 leaves, lower margin, in center.
From the day after the 1667 campaign, which brought Flanders to France, Louis XIV hastened to send ordinances and create Parlements in the conquered cities, especially since it was at this date that Parlements were obligated to register royal Edicts. Moreover a procedural code was sent to all jurisdictions of the kingdom. The book gathers royal ordinances and edicts until 1701, thus composing the history of a city and territory that became French. Tournai would return to Austria in 1713, then suffer the same fate as the Austrian Netherlands. The city would be conquered once again by the Revolution and Empire, then attached to the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815. In 1830 finally, it was integrated into independent Belgium.