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Secretarial copy of a mémoire by Guyot concerning the Decroze case, dating to January 1761
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CMV35510
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McGill University
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Lambert-David.IIIDecroze.4Déclarations.6.Mémoire circonstancié de l’assassinat de Decroze, Guyot, s.d. (B)
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Incipit Diplomatic:
Le dit jour le Sr Guyot controlleur a Sacconea reçut de la part de la Veuve Burdet demeurant a Magni, un Billet par lequel elle l’invitoit à souper chez elle
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Language(s):
French
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Partly
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The memoire recounts the attack on Decroze on 28 December 1760
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Attack, Gex, Josephe Decroze, Justice, Sin, Violence
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Memoire
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Copy (Secretarial)
Physical Description
Material(s):
Ink on paper
Extent:
2 ff.
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4to
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228 x 188 mm
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Unbound
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Undecorated
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Voltaire has endorsed the MS in his own hand as ‘copie du mémoire de guiot’ on f.2v.
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January 1761
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