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Legal opinion by Nicolas Guillet de Chaumont, counsellor and judge, second interrogation on the criminal seat, 4 June 1734.

I find the Accused well and duly convicted and guilty of having set fire to the home of Dame francheville; in reparation of which in my opinion she should make honourable amends, holding a torch in her hand which will be Severed before the Cathedral of this city, And then be Thrown into the fire alive, having previously been tortured in the ordinary and extraordinary ways to denounce her accomplices; dated at montreal the 4 June 1734.

[signed] Chaumont

Source: Archives nationales du Québec, Centre de Montréal, Procedure Criminel contre Marie Joseph Angélique negresse - Incendiere, 1734, TL4 S1, 4136, Juridiction royale de Montréal, Legal opinion by Nicolas Guillet de Chaumont, counsellor and judge, June 4, 1734.

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