Le Libraire Sarcasme

fixer le souvenir. Ce nid perdu fut, il y a plus d'un siècle, le théâtre d'une poignante tragédie qui demeurera immortelle dans les annales de la nation allemande. C'est là en effet que, lors du plus complet effondrement qu'ait connu notre patrie, un libraire de Nüremberg, Johannes Palm, nationaliste endurci et ennemi des Français, mourut pour cette Allemagne qu'il aimait si ardemment jusque dans son malheur. Il avait obstinément refusé de livrer ses complices, d'ailleurs les principaux responsables.

announced. But their rights were slackly enforced and publishers continued to exploit them, sometimes requiring them to contribute to the cost of paper or to accept multiple copies of other books in part payment. A manuscript was sold outright to a libraire (a publisher who was also a bookseller) whose exclusive property it remained for an agreed period. But publishers were themselves vulnerable to the activities of pirate printers who simply reissued books which had made a stir. Illegal books found