Police citations issued to Pierre Schoumaker
Content Description
Eight citations from the Gendarmerie in the Seraing district of Liège, Belgium, declaring the seizure of eight erotic novels from bookstore owner Pierre Schoumaker. Each report consists of a printed form with details about the date of the seizure; the nature of the police action (“proposition d’interdiction” and “rapport de lecture”); the names and addresses of the accused; the bibliographical details on an individual title; the names of the officers involved; and the signature of the officer filing the report. The copies offered here likely are those supplied to the accused or their lawyer. Attached to each citation is a mimeographed “Rapport de Lecture” form - a single leaf with a typescript carbon copy recto only transcribing selected offending passages of the given book (often finishing at the end of the page with “etc., etc.” The books seized are the following: Béatrice Alban. Mes origines conjugales (Paris: Les Naïades); Harriet Daimler. Innocence ([Paris]: Marie Concorde Editeur, [1971]); the report misspells the author’s first name as “Barriet”; Serge Delroc. Marie-Jo (Editions “La Pierre Blanche,” [1970]); Arnold Kramer. Devergondages (Paris: Editions du Cratère, [1972]); Françoise Libaud. La Chienne des loups (Editions du Livre Universel, [1970]); Denise Miège. Littérature érotique féminine (Civilisation Moderne, [1970]); Eric Ollivier. Les Malheurs d’Annie (Paris: La Table Ronde, [1970]); Ooana Owen. Telle la fleur du Tamala ([Paris]: Editions du Japyx, [1970]).
Dates
- 1972-07-06 - 1973-01-30
Creator
- Police de Liège (Organization)
Extent
8 items.
Language of Materials
French
Abstract
Eight citations from the Gendarmerie in the Seraing district of Liège, Belgium, declaring the seizure of eight erotic novels from bookstore owner Pierre Schoumaker.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)