GAZETTE D' AMSTERDAM, HOLLANDE, Dec 22 1739 NEWSPAPER, 6 pgs., 281 years old!!!

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GAZETTE D' AMSTERDAM, HOLLANDE, Sept 25 1739 NEWSPAPER, 6 pgs., 281 years old!!!,
dimensions, 6" x 8", pages have been trimmed, some loose pages,
has some aging-environmental damage, soil/foxing stains, folds, bent corners, tears, some pin holes, other...
Gazette d'Amsterdam
(also known as
Gazette d’Hollande
or
Nouvelles d'Amsterdam
) was one of the most important international
European Newspaper
the
Enlightement period
and a major source of political information. It was a
French
bi-weekly newspaper published in
Amsterdam
from the second half of the 17th century till 1796, during the
Batavian Republic
. In the 18th century, the
Netherlands
were very tolerant in matters of
Freedom of the Press a
nd
religion
. Unlike most contemporary countries, such as France, Great Britain or the states of the Holy Roman Empire, there was little government interference in matters of
censorship
or
protected monopolies
there.
Many
Huguenots
fled to the Netherlands during the reign of
Louis XIV
, and the numbers of French refugees increased with the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes
in 1685. Several of them began publishing newspapers in various European cities covering political news in France and Europe. French was both their native tongue and the
lingua franca
of European diplomacy. Read by the European elites, these papers were called in France the
gazettes étrangères
, the "foreign gazettes".
JeanTronchin Du Breuil
(Du Breuil) is commonly seen as the paper's founder and first editor (given the establishment date in 1691).
His descendants controlled the newspaper till its demise in the late 18th century.
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