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Luneau de Boisjermain's case, Paris (1770)

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22073 n°10

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Luneau de Boisjermain's case, Paris (1770), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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and M. Despilly, to be distributed to provincial and
regional booksellers, be returned and restored to the said
M. Luneau de Boisjermain; to which end the aforementioned
depository, M. Lefort, shall be constrained, forcibly if
necessary, and also the said booksellers, widow Savoye, M.
Durand, M. Delalain and M. Despilly, by all due and
reasonable means; in so doing, each of them shall be
properly and legitimately discharged; we forbid the Syndic
and Assistants of the Guild of Booksellers to carry out
similar confiscations in future, and also to visit private
homes without express and special authorisation on our
part, and for having carried out the confiscation in
question, we condemn them to pay 300 livres of damages to
the said Luneau de Boisjermain, and to all costs, which
we have settled at 320 livres and 7 sols, including the
issuing of our present ruling: In response to the request
of the Syndic and Assistants of the Guild of Booksellers,
for the suppression of the memoirs issued by the said M.
Luneau, we order that the offensive terms contained in the
said memoirs shall be and shall remain suppressed, and in
compensation, we condemn him to pay 50 livres of damages
to the said Syndic and Assistants of the Guild of
Booksellers, which shall be deducted from those awarded to
him above: with respect to the remaining requests of
each party, we dismiss them from the court, not discounting,
however, that His Majesty may make a further ruling if He
judges it necessary, regarding the manner of exercising the
commission in matters of bookselling. And one hundred
copies of the present verdict shall be printed and publicly
posted, at the expense of the Syndics and Assistants of
the Guild of Booksellers. Declared in Paris, at our chambers,
30th January 1770. Collated by Le Riche.

      A copy has been forwarded to M. Cormier, the Public
Prosecutor's home address, 17 February 1770.
                                                            Signed: Hamot
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1770

    

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