Publishing, the Rules of the Trade
What should we think about the Miller Case? Letter from Daniel Parker
Daniel Parker, 1947, Archives nationales - Paris, BB/18/3979/57A 50-R-41
For the Supervisory Committee, Sexus is an ‘obscene book’ that describes an erotomaniac. The Ministry of the Interior banned the English edition, both the unabridged and the expurgated versions, as well as all translations, citing the section of the 1881 law that deals with freedom of press and foreign publications likely to disturb public order. Girodias made an appeal. The Conseil d’État, in 1958, considered that ‘a translation into the French language of a book by a foreign author constitutes written matter from a foreign source and therefore comes under the law of 1881.’ Sexus was republished only in 1968 by Buchet-Chastel, with a ban on sales to minors.
Letter from Daniel Parker, 'What should we think about the Miller Case?'
Daniel Parker, 1947, Archives nationales - Paris, BB/18/3979/57A 50-R-41
For the Supervisory Committee, Sexus is an ‘obscene book’ that describes an erotomaniac. The Ministry of the Interior banned the English edition, both the unabridged and the expurgated versions, as well as all translations, citing the section of the 1881 law that deals with freedom of press and foreign publications likely to disturb public order. Girodias made an appeal. The Conseil d’État, in 1958, considered that ‘a translation into the French language of a book by a foreign author constitutes written matter from a foreign source and therefore comes under the law of 1881.’ Sexus was republished only in 1968 by Buchet-Chastel, with a ban on sales to minors.
Letter from Daniel Parker, 'What should we think about the Miller Case?'
Daniel Parker, 1947, Archives nationales - Paris, BB/18/3979/57A 50-R-41
For the Supervisory Committee, Sexus is an ‘obscene book’ that describes an erotomaniac. The Ministry of the Interior banned the English edition, both the unabridged and the expurgated versions, as well as all translations, citing the section of the 1881 law that deals with freedom of press and foreign publications likely to disturb public order. Girodias made an appeal. The Conseil d’État, in 1958, considered that ‘a translation into the French language of a book by a foreign author constitutes written matter from a foreign source and therefore comes under the law of 1881.’ Sexus was republished only in 1968 by Buchet-Chastel, with a ban on sales to minors.
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Daniel Parker, 1947, Archives nationales - Paris, BB/18/3979/57A 50-R-41
For the Supervisory Committee, Sexus is an ‘obscene book’ that describes an erotomaniac. The Ministry of the Interior banned the English edition, both the unabridged and the expurgated versions, as well as all translations, citing the section of the 1881 law that deals with freedom of press and foreign publications likely to disturb public order. Girodias made an appeal. The Conseil d’État, in 1958, considered that ‘a translation into the French language of a book by a foreign author constitutes written matter from a foreign source and therefore comes under the law of 1881.’ Sexus was republished only in 1968 by Buchet-Chastel, with a ban on sales to minors.
Letter from Daniel Parker, 'What should we think about the Miller Case?'
Daniel Parker, 1947, Archives nationales - Paris, BB/18/3979/57A 50-R-41
For the Supervisory Committee, Sexus is an ‘obscene book’ that describes an erotomaniac. The Ministry of the Interior banned the English edition, both the unabridged and the expurgated versions, as well as all translations, citing the section of the 1881 law that deals with freedom of press and foreign publications likely to disturb public order. Girodias made an appeal. The Conseil d’État, in 1958, considered that ‘a translation into the French language of a book by a foreign author constitutes written matter from a foreign source and therefore comes under the law of 1881.’ Sexus was republished only in 1968 by Buchet-Chastel, with a ban on sales to minors.