14 June 1966
Index of Prohibited Books Cancelled
First edition La nouvelle Heloise, 1761
Cal 2003/4017 X
The Index of Prohibited Books (Index Librorum Prohibitorum) existed for over four hundred years when it was cancelled by Pope Paul VI on June 14, 1966. Catholics could now read Jean Jacques Rousseau, the Enlightenment author who had repeatedly pointed out that book reading had an unfavourable influence on education. His bestseller La nouvelle Heloise had been on the Index since it was published in 1761. The first edition of this epistolary novel about two lovers in a village at the foot of the Alps was published in Amsterdam by Marc-Michel Rey.
Today in the Biographies Dutch Labour Movement
Born on 14 June
• Coenraad Albertus Jacobus Geesink |
Died on 14 June
• Anthoon Johan Koejemans |