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Report on the execution, 3 in the afternoon, 21 June 1734.

The year seventeen Hundred thirty-four the twentieth of June three in the afternoon, the present judgment Was Read by me, the undersigned Clerk, at the gaol of This city to the accused And after the sacrament of Repentance was Administered to her by M. Navetier priest of the St Sulpice Seminary , She Was Remanded forthwith Into the hands of the Executor of the high Court, who brought Her before The door of the parish Church of This city where She made honourable amends a torch in her fist, then Was Led by the said Executor

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to the Water’s Edge opposite The house of sieur de Joncaire to the empty Place in front of the burned houses where She was Hanged and Strangled and Then Thrown into the fire, And the Ashes cast to the wind, In Execution of the said Judgment. Dated the said Day and year Aforementioned.

Source: Archives nationales du Québec, Centre de Québec, Jugements et délibérations, TP1, S28, P17230, Conseil supérieur, Report on the execution, June 21, 1734.

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