LILLE (NORD) 1787. CENSORSHIP Placard (52 x 42). "JUGEMENT d - Lot 228

LILLE (NORD) 1787. CENSORSHIP Placard (52 x 42). "JUGEMENT des Prévôt, Mayeur Échevins de la Ville de LILLE, du 23 Avril 1787, contre la Directrice des SPECTACLES." Done in Conclave on April 23, 1787. "... it has just spread in the Public, a writing entitled opinion concerning the Spectacles; that this opinion in which the Director compromises the Body of the MAGISTRAT, by facts whose falseness is obvious, is moreover printed made public, in contravention of the Ordinances; To these causes. He requires for the King, that he be informed against the Printer the Distributors of the said Notice, that the Director of the spectacles be mandated to the Conclave to be heard, then punished..."