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    Core documents by: Date Place Core documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States All documents for: Italy Germany France Britain United States Original language: English French German Italian Latin Browse documents by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse commentaries by: Person ... by name ... by occupation ... by life dates Place Institution Legislation Case law Browse database by: Key words Editors' login:  | | Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges, unknown (1650) Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22071 n°83 Citation: Vitré's memorandum on the prolongation of privileges (1650s), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org Record Images Record-ID: f_1650s Full title "Whether it is of benefit to the public to provide Booksellers with Prolongations of Privileges, in view of the present state of things in the Book Trade" Full title original language "S'il est advantageux pour le public d'accorder aux Libraires des Continuations de Privileges, en l'état que les choses sont à present dans la Librairie" Abstract The Vitré dynasty of publishers, like that of the Nivelle or Camusat families, would, even in the critical eyes of the Abbé Blondel (f_1725a), appear to have been genuinely devoted to "bringing out books in the best possible way rather than just wanting to make huge fortunes". In the political context of the Counter-Reformation, and at the same time as the various disputes which followed the promulgation of the book trade regulations of 1649 (f_1649), Antoine Vitré published a notionally disinterested memorandum which stressed the importance of a strong corporatist discipline and a thorough-going regulation of the book market. Vitré asserted unequivocally that not only the stability of the latter, but also the Crown's control of the press depended on continuing the privilege system - that is, on the gradual curtailment of the 'public domain', which in this sense anticipated the policies of Louis XIV's famous minister of finances Jean-Baptiste Colbert in the second half of the seventeenth century. Bibliography N/A Related documents in this database Author Antoine Vitré (1595-1674) Publisher unknown Location unknown Year 1650s Language French Source Bibliothèque nationale de France : Mss. Fr. 22071 n°83 Physical description N/A Illustrations tables N/A Persons referred to Boderie, Guy Lefèvre de la (1541-1598) Donatus, Aelius (fl.375) Estienne, Charles (1504-1564) Estienne, Henri I (c.1460-1520) Estienne, Henri II (1528-1598) Estienne, Robert (1503-1559) Godefroy, Denis (1549-1622) Huillier, Pierre l' (fl.1572-1585) Le Bé, Guillaume (1523-1598) Métayer, Jamet (fl.1588-1605) Morel, Fédéric (1523-1583) Neufgermain, Michel de (fl.1684-1697) Patisson, Mamert (d.1600) Philip II (1527-1598) Plantin, Christophe (c.1520-1589) Richelieu, Armand Jean Duplessis, Cardinal de (1585-1642) Vitré, Antoine (1595-1674) Persons referred to in commentary Blondel, Pierre-Jacques (1683-1739) Camusat, Jean (fl.1634) Colbert, Jean Baptiste (1619-1683) Louis XIV (1638-1715) Nivelle, Sébastien (fl.1570) Vitré, Antoine (1595-1674) Places referred to Amiens Antwerp Ayen (dép. of Corrèze) Chasteleraut (dép. of Vienne) Dombes, principality of England Fontenay (dép. of the Seine) Germany Holland Langres (arr. Haute-Marne) La Rochelle Le Havre Lyon Montauban (dép. of Tarn-et-Garonne) Niort (dép. of Deux-Sèvres) Normandy Paris Pézenas (dép. of Hérault) Picardy Poitiers Sables d'Olone (dép. of Charente) Saint-Mexant (dép. of Corrèze) Soye (dép. of Doubs) Spain Tours Troyes Places referred to in commentary N/A Legislation referred to N/A Legislation referred to in commentary Royal Letters Patent of 1649 Cases referred to N/A Cases referred to in commentary N/A Institutions referred to Compagnie des Usages (association of major Parisian publishers) Confrairie de S Jean Porte-Latine (booksellers' association) Escorial Monastery (El Escorial) Hôpital Général (Paris) King's Council of State (France) Parisian Guild of Booksellers and Printers Parlement of Paris University of Paris (Sorbonne) Institutions referred to in commentary N/A Key words Bible, the book fairs book market book trade classics, Greek and Latin counterfeit duration, prolongation of privileges guild regulation guilds immoral works importation incentives inheritability penalties printing, history of privileges privileges, French privileges, printing property theory, publishers' property public good Reformation, the religious works renewal reprints typography Responsible editor Frédéric Rideau Copyright status Original document is out of copyright. In so far as these scans are protected by copyright, they are made available on the same terms as translations and commentaries (see home page). | |||||
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