Secretarial copy of a mémoire concerning the criminal proceedings which followed the attack on Decroze on 28 December 1761
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CMV35482
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Lambert-David.IIIDecroze.2MsDecroze.5.Mémoire de Croze sur l’irrégularité des procédures, s.d.
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Secretarial copy of a mémoire concerning the criminal proceedings which followed the attack on Decroze on 28 December 1761
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Le 31e Xbre le pére De Droze porta sa plainte à Mr de Lieutenant criminel
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Partly
Brief Summary:
Secretarial copy of a mémoire concerning the criminal proceedings which followed the attack on Decroze on 28 December 1761.
Detailed Summary:
The memoire begins by noting that the father of Decroze brought his case to the Lieutenant on 31 December who called two witnesses that same day. The case was then passed to the public prosecutor of the King on 5 January for him to give his conclusions, but the prosecutor refused to take the case. Decroze’s father was was unhappy about this, saying that theft of a life was equitable to theft of property, and saying that he would issue a summons to the lieutenant which would oblige the public prosecutor of the King to give a verdict. He did this, but the prosecutor refused to take the case until 11 January, by which time the attackers had had time to flee to other countries.
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1 ff.
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226 x 184 mm
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Unbound
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Undecorated
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Voltaire has added a title to the MS in his own hand on f.1v reading: ‘memoire de croze sur l’irrégularité des procedures’.
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c.January 1761
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[Ferney] // Château de Ferney
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