Alsace Colmar Antisemitism Counterfeit currency.... - Lot 70 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

Alsace Colmar Antisemitism Counterfeit currency. Set of 2 letters from François Dietreman, King's Counsellor to the Sovereign Council of Alsace, royal lender of the city of Colmar and subdelegate of the Intendancy of Haute-Alsace addressed to "Monseigneur" + a signed Hebrew coin. Colmar, sept.-oct. 1717. 9 pp. in-folio. Important dampenings. Very interesting letters, with anti-Semitic content, on the dismantling of a network of "fake gold louis d'or" between Colmar and Basel. "I am sure that the Jew Gombrecht of Herlisheim assured me that he did everything in his power, together with Meyer, a Jew living in Haguenheim, to lure to Basle people loaded with gold and dressed as officers who sold him a small ingot of it, and that he somehow had a claim in his defense that he had put Mr. Zorn in a position to arrest one of these two men, which he didn't think it was appropriate to do, so that he could later arrest them both, I did, however, have them both put in jail. On the suspicion of your Excellency that Gombrecht, a Jew, did not respond as he should to what was entrusted to him on this occasion, and indeed the haste with which the two men whom it was intended to arrest in Basle left on the day of the appointment which they had made with Gombrecht, gives rise to suspicion of his conduct in this respect. Gombrecht is suspected in this respect.... In the second letter he gives further details. It is true that several Jews wanted to put together up to 100,000 escus to employ the people whom the said Gombrecht had promised to arrest on the Rhine Bridge...". Led. Nathan is indeed, Monsignor, known in this province for a man capable of doing such a maneuver, for if he had not withdrawn hastily from the town of Thann, where he was living, he would have been arrested there for a criminal act []. The last document, which is very interesting, is the statement of the accused Gombrecht, "a Jew from Herlisheim at