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Sentence rendered against Marie-Anne Sigouin found guilty of infanticide, 7 May 1732.

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[...] has declared and does declare the said Marianne Sigouin, duly convicted and guilty of having concealed her pregnancy and delivery, and of having murdered her child in reparation for which she is condemned to make honourable amends naked in her shirt, a rope around her neck, holding in her hands a flaming torch of wax weighing two pounds, at the front of the official door and entry of the cathedral church of this city led by the executor of the high court and there, on her knees, declare that she maliciously concealed her pregnancy and delivery and murdered her child for which she repents and asks forgiveness from God, the king and the courts, and this done she

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will be led to the public place of the Lower town of Quebec where she will be hanged and strangled until dead at the gallows Erected for this purpose At the said public place of the Lower town, her Body Then disposed of as refuse.[...]

[signed]hocquart

[signed]Cugnet

Source: Archives nationales du Québec, Centre de Québec, , Registre no 37 des arrêts rendus au Conseil supérieur de Québec sur les matières criminelles (4 juin 1730 au 29 décembre 1759), Jugements et délibérations du Conseil supérieur, Sentence rendered against Marie-Anne Sigouin found guilty of infanticide, May 7, 1732, fol. 18v-19v.

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