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LALLY-TOLENDAL (Trophime-Gérard de). Plea of the Count of La - Lot 258

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LALLY-TOLENDAL (Trophime-Gérard de). Plea of the Count of La - Lot 258
LALLY-TOLENDAL (Trophime-Gérard de). Plea of the Count of Lally-Tolendal, Captain of Cavalry in the Cuirassiers regiment, Curator in memory of the late Count of Lally his father; against Mr. Duval d'Éprémesnil, Councillor at the Parliament of Paris, nephew, by his father, of the late Sieur Duval de Leyrit. Rouen, Widow Besongne & son, 1780. In-4 of 314 pp. ivory half vellum, smooth spine, brown mar. title page, date at tail (binding end 19th c.). Uncommon. The name of Count de Lally (1702-1766), from an Irish family who had followed James II in exile, remains attached to one of the most important miscarriages of justice of the reign of Louis XV. Chosen in 1756 as part of the Seven Years' War to defend the French settlements in the Indies and restore order to the administration of the Compagnie des Indes, Lally soon suffered a series of setbacks, partly due to the insubordination of his men, which led in 1761 to the surrender of Pondicherry and its capture by the English as a prisoner of war. Accused by Georges Duval de Leyri, colonial administrator and governor general of Pondicherry from 1755 to 1758, of having surrendered Pondicherry to the English in exchange for money, Lally-Tolendal was, on his return to France, the victim of an unusual judicial harassment and ended up being condemned to death and executed on 9 May 1766. It was not until the advent of Louis XVI and the combined efforts of Voltaire and Trophime-Gérard de Lally, the general's natural son, that this decision was overturned on 21 May 1778. Supported by Voltaire as early as 1773, the son of General Lally-Tollendal had brought the case before the Normandy Parliament to be re-examined, but Jean-Jacques Duval d'Eprémesnil, a lawyer at the Châtelet de Paris, and nephew of the accuser, obtained the inadmissibility, which was confirmed by the Conseil d'État, which denied the young Lally, born out of wedlock, his status as the legitimate son of Lally-Tollendal. The case was then w
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