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(LAUNAY, Florentine de) Étrennes aux grisettes. Reasonable or not, everything gets involved. For the year 1790. [Paris ?] s.n. [1790] In-8°: 36 pp. on bluish laid paper (title and last p. browned, rare foxing). Br. in blue paper cover, red tr. (detached). Original edition with 1 copperplate engraving of a "grisette" perched upside down on a baudet driven by a horned individual. Contains a "Requête présentée à M. Silvain Bailly, maire de Paris [...] contre les marchandes de modes, couturières, lingères, et autres grisettes commerçantes sur le pavé de Paris, &c." The plaintiff protests against the unfair competition from grisettes who trade in their charms in defiance of police regulations and to the detriment of true professionals. This is followed by a long list, with names and addresses, of grisettes for whom registration on the "filles de joie" register is requested. It includes, among others, actresses and singers. Ref. Dutel A-367. - BGL II:180. - Cohen 365. - Nordmann II:194.
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(LAUNAY, Florentine de) Étrennes aux grisettes. Reasonable or not, everything gets involved. For the year 1790. [Paris ?] s.n. [1790] In-8°: 36 pp. on bluish laid paper (title and last p. browned, rare foxing). Br. in blue paper cover, red tr. (detached). Original edition with 1 copperplate engraving of a "grisette" perched upside down on a baudet driven by a horned individual. Contains a "Requête présentée à M. Silvain Bailly, maire de Paris [...] contre les marchandes de modes, couturières, lingères, et autres grisettes commerçantes sur le pavé de Paris, &c." The plaintiff protests against the unfair competition from grisettes who trade in their charms in defiance of police regulations and to the detriment of true professionals. This is followed by a long list, with names and addresses, of grisettes for whom registration on the "filles de joie" register is requested. It includes, among others, actresses and singers. Ref. Dutel A-367. - BGL II:180. - Cohen 365. - Nordmann II:194.
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