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By Rupert Christiansen
Among 1869 and 1875, Paris was once recognized to the area as "the new Babylon." A urban captivated with intercourse and cash and governed by means of the unwell tyrant Louis Napoleon and his ruthless spouse Eugenie, Paris was once a spot of depth, violence and volatility. Tracing Europe's so much glittering capital because it tettered at the verge of the Franco-Prussian battle and the horror that ensued, Christiansen inspires the most dramatic sessions of contemporary historical past. pictures.
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59, Le Breton and his partners stated that "nous vendons pour toujours aux sieurs Dessaint, Panckoucke et Chauehat tous nos droits dans les reimpressions a faire a I 'avenir dudit ouvrage de 1'Encyclopedie, nos dits droits tels qu'ils se poursuivent et qu'ils se comportent, que lesdits sieurs acquereurs ont dit bien eonnaitre et dont ils sont contents; en consequenee de quoi ledit objet est par nous vendu sans aucune garantie. " It might be thought that ownership of the eopper plates meant de facto control over future editions, as the text would be ,vorthless without the illustrations.
29. STN to Marechal of ~Ietz, Aug. 22, 1779. 29 The Business of Enlightenment plates to his contract of December 16, 1768, with Le Breton, David, and Briasson. " The register of the Parisian booksellers' guild for 1776 contains a privilege under Panckoucke's name for a work with precisely this title, and a similar privilege appears in the first edition of tIle EncyclolJedie-not in volumes 1-7 of the text, which carry the privilege that was revoked in 1759, but in volume 6 of the plates, which appeared in 1768, when Panckoucke bought the rights to the book from Le Breton and his associates.
67. 29. STN to Marechal of ~Ietz, Aug. 22, 1779. 29 The Business of Enlightenment plates to his contract of December 16, 1768, with Le Breton, David, and Briasson. " The register of the Parisian booksellers' guild for 1776 contains a privilege under Panckoucke's name for a work with precisely this title, and a similar privilege appears in the first edition of tIle EncyclolJedie-not in volumes 1-7 of the text, which carry the privilege that was revoked in 1759, but in volume 6 of the plates, which appeared in 1768, when Panckoucke bought the rights to the book from Le Breton and his associates.