PARIS. WINE. CARCAN, MARQUE, GALLEY. “Ruling of the Court of - Lot 114

PARIS. WINE. CARCAN, MARQUE, GALLEY. “Ruling of the Court of Parliament (of Paris), which sentences Leger RIQUET, Port Guard, and Anne JACOB, his wife—namely, the said RIQUET—to the Carcan, the Marque, and the Galleys, for having stolen wine from barrels at the Halle au Vin while on duty; and the said JACOB to banishment, for having participated in her husband’s theft.” June 7, 1760. “… As punishment, the said Riquet is sentenced to be fastened in the stocks to a post that will be erected for this purpose at the Port of the Halle au Vin in this city, and to remain there from noon until two o’clock, with signs in front and behind bearing the following words (Soldier, guard day and night at the ports of this city, and wine thief while on duty) thereafter, to be taken and brought to the King’s Galleys, to be detained therein, and to serve the said King (Louis XV) as a convict for a period of six years, having previously had the three letters G.A.L. branded on his right shoulder … ” - Printed in Paris by P. G. Simon, Printer to Parliament, rue de la Harpe, 1760; 4 pages, in-4°.

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