[HALLOT (François de Montmorency du)]. Arestum curiae Parlam - Lot 368

[HALLOT (François de Montmorency du)]. Arestum curiae Parlamenti Normaniae translatae Cadomi, datum contra Christophorum d'Alegre Dominum loci, & sui criminis conscios [...] commissum in persona defuncti Nobilis Domini Frãncisci de Montmorency, Domni de Hallot [...] sl, sn, 1593. Small 16 pp. in-8, with handwritten apostille signed in fine by [Séraphin] Thielement (conseiller, greffier et secrétaire du Roi). BORCH, brown cover. "Fameuse affaire ayant fait scandale à l'époque". "HALLOT (François de Montmorency du), lieutenant-general of Henri IV in Normandy, brave and valiant lord, was treacherously and cold-bloodedly murdered in his house in Vernon, on Sept. 13, 1592, by the Marquis d'Alègre, baron de St-Just, governor of Gisors. Following this murder, d'Alègre withdrew to the Duc de Mayenne, and managed to avoid the punishment due to his crime." Frère (II, 61.) Ex-libris JM.