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Ordonnace de Police qui fait deffenses à tous soldats, cavaliers ou dragons d'entrer et de joüer dans les jeux de paulme et billard, et aux maistres desdits jeux de les y souffrit, à peine de prison contre les soldats, et de cent livres d'amende contre les maistres desdits jeux. Paris: P.J. Mariette, 10 November 1741. 4to. (24.3 x 19.4cm), 3 [1]p., woodcut headpiece, contemporay inscription giving date and subject at head of first page.
A decree stating that, as master paumiers and their servants had been unable to prevent disorder and violence on the part of soldiers, an earlier "ordonnance" or decree was being revived, preventing members of the French and Swiss guards, cavaliers and dragoons from entering "dans les maisons jeux de paulme et salles de billard, sous prétetxte de joüer, ou de regarder joüer" on pain of imprisonment. Master paumiers would, in turn, be fined 100 livres for allowing soldiers into their houses. FINE CONDITION.
Ordonnace de Police qui fait deffenses à tous soldats, cavaliers ou dragons d'entrer et de joüer dans les jeux de paulme et billard, et aux maistres desdits jeux de les y souffrit, à peine de prison contre les soldats, et de cent livres d'amende contre les maistres desdits jeux. Paris: P.J. Mariette, 10 November 1741. 4to. (24.3 x 19.4cm), 3 [1]p., woodcut headpiece, contemporay inscription giving date and subject at head of first page.
A decree stating that, as master paumiers and their servants had been unable to prevent disorder and violence on the part of soldiers, an earlier "ordonnance" or decree was being revived, preventing members of the French and Swiss guards, cavaliers and dragoons from entering "dans les maisons jeux de paulme et salles de billard, sous prétetxte de joüer, ou de regarder joüer" on pain of imprisonment. Master paumiers would, in turn, be fined 100 livres for allowing soldiers into their houses. FINE CONDITION.
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