"Procedure Merlet"—A 32 page bound holograph "Extract des Procedures deposes au Greffe de la Cour Imperiale de Paris, Assises de la Seine. 1899.
—This is a rendition of the complaint against Ernest Merlet (24 yrs old), arrested at 8:30 for "une "folie mercourt" and indencies with a boy named Eugene Lesaille ("sise (sic) ans 1/2"). Merlet allegedly got him drunk on "cassis sans eau" and sirop de groseille" and vermouth near the Bastille..... More