DRUNKEN BOOKBINDER: WATCH YOUR KNEECAPS!
[BOOKBINDER.]
Sentence rendue en la chambre criminelle du Châtelet de Paris, qui condamne Guillaume Maillet, maître relieur, à être blâmé, pour, étant ivre, avoir troublé par des grimaces et gestes indécens, l’Office divin, le jour de Pâques … Extrait des registres du greffe criminel du Châtelet de Paris, du vingt-deux Août mil sept cent quatre-vingt-deux.
Paris, Jean-Charles Desaint, 1782.
4to, pp. 3, [1 (blank)]; caption title, woodcut head-piece with royal arms to p. 1; small damp stand to lower margins; very good; disbound.
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Sentence rendue en la chambre criminelle du Châtelet de Paris, qui condamne Guillaume Maillet, maître relieur, à être blâmé, pour, étant ivre, avoir troublé par des grimaces et gestes indécens, l’Office divin, le jour de Pâques … Extrait des registres du greffe criminel du Châtelet de Paris, du vingt-deux Août mil sept cent quatre-vingt-deux.
Scarce pamphlet documenting the misdemeanours of the Parisian master bookbinder Guillaume Maillet.
According to the Sentence Maillet got drunk, burst into the church of Saint-Hilaire, and interrupted the Easter service by pulling faces and making obscene gestures. When a Swiss guard by the name of Claude Dunan tried to make him leave, Maillet knocked him down, fracturing his kneecap in the process, leaving the guard permanently crippled. For his drunken misdeeds Maillet was sentenced to pay three livres to the king and six hundred livres in damages to the damaged Dunan. Any further offences by Maillot would be met with corporal punishment.
Little else appears to be known of Maillet’s career, this episode being the only information recorded in his entry in Les Relieurs Français (1500-1800) (Paris, 1893, pp. 344–345).
No copies traced in the UK. OCLC records 2 copies in the US (Newberry Library, Yale).
