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a bad game,' they say. They find fault with themselves; they do not blaspheme
their God." Anatole France, Le Jardin d'Epicure (Paris), pp. 15-18. j [04a]
Beraud seeks to advocate, through extensive argumentation, the benefits of ad­
ministrative-as opposed to judicial-proceedings against prostitutes: " Thus, the
sanctuary of justice will not have been publicly sullied hy an unclean affair, and
the crime is punished, but in a discretionary manner, hy virtue of a particular
ordinance of the Prefect of Police." F. F. A. Beraud, lies FUles publiques de Paris
et la police qui les regit (Paris and Leipzig, 1839), vol. 2, p. 50. [05,1]
r.'A marlou . . . is a handsome young man, strong and well built, who
knows how to defend himself, to dress well, to dance the chahue and the cancan
with elegance, to he ohliging toward girls devoted to the cult of Venus, and to
provide for them in times of conspicuous danger; who knows also how to get them
respect and to force them to conduct themselves decently . ... Here, then, we have
a class of individuals who, from time immemorial, have distinguished themselves
hy their attractive appearance, by their exemplary conduct, and by the services
they have rendered society, and who now are reduced to dire circumstances."
50,000 Voleurs de plus a Paris, au Reclamation des anciens mar'lous de la capitale,
contre l'ordonnance de M. le Prefet de police, concernant lesfilles puhliques;
Par Ie beau Theodore Cancan, cited in F. F. A. Beraud, Les Filles puhliques de
Paris et la police qui les nigit (Paris and Leipzig, 1839), vol. 2, p. 109-110, 113-
114. [The pamphlet slightly antedates the work that cites iLl [05,2]
From the police edict of April 14., 1830, regulating prostitution: ""Art. (1) . .. They
are forbidden to appeal' at any time, or on any pretext, in the arcades, in the
public gardens, or on the boulevards. Art. (2) Filles publujues are not permitted to
engage in prostitution except in licensed brothels (maisons de tolerance). Art. (3)
Filles isolees-that is to say, those who do not rcside in licensed brothels-may not
enter these houses until after the lighting of the street lamps; they must proceed
directly there and be dressed simply and decently . ... Art.. (4) They may not, in a
single evening, leave one licensed brothel to go to another. Art. (5) Unattached
girls must leave the licensed hrothels and return home hy eleven o'clock in the
evening . ... Art. (7) Licensed brothels shall he indicated by an entry light ancI, in
the early hours, by an older woman tending the door. . . . Signed: :IVIungin."
F F. A. Beraud, Les FiUes publiqnes de Paris et la police qui les regit (Paris and
Leipzig, 1839), vol. 2, p. 133-135. [05,3]
Bonuses earmarked for the brigade d'ordre: three francs for identification of a
prostitute under the age of twenty-one; ftfteen franes for identification of an illicit
brothel; twenty-five francs for identification of a brothel of minors. Berauci, Les
Filles publiques, pp. 133-139. [05,4]
Explanations offered hy Beraud concerning his proposals for new regulations. (1)
With respect to the olel woman at the threshold: "'The second paragraph prohihits