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Decree on Engravings, Paris (1660)

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22119 n°21

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Decree on Engravings, Paris (1660), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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and, additionally, it banishes the Arts instead of attracting them
by a favourable reception: HIS MAJESTY, wanting to increase
the courage of those who dedicate themselves to this Art, and by
the marks of his esteem and Justice, to invite his other
Subjects to imitate them, even Foreigners to accustom themselves
to his Kingdom. HIS MAJESTY, being in his Council,
not taking into account the Petition presented to him, nor
the Decree of his Private Council of the seventh February last,
nor everything that could have followed from it, has upheld and
kept, [and] upholds and keeps, the Art of Printmaking, by
engraving and etching and all other techniques such
as they are, and those who make it their profession, both Natives
(Regnicoles) and Foreigners, in the state of freedom they have always had
in the exercise of it throughout the Kingdom, without it being possible
for them to be curtailed in it by Guild membership or Incorporation, nor subjected
to other Rules or Controls, in the name of whomsoever, leaving
things in this Profession as they have been up until the present.
His Majesty forbids the said Lavenage and all others,
to make use of the said Petition and Decree and
of everything that could follow from it; and the said Lieu-
tenant Civil and the King's Procureur at the Chastelet from
taking any notice of it, nor to suffer any interference
in the exercise of the said Art, on pain of annulment, cancellation
and a fine of three thousand livres plus costs,
damages and interest. PASSED, His Majesty being present,
at the King's Council of State held at saint Jean-du-Luz, the twenty sixth
of May sixteen hundred and sixty.

                              Signed, DE LOMENIE

    

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