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Legal opinion by François Lepailleur de Laferté, counsellor and judge, second interrogation on the criminal seat, 4 June 1734.

I find the accused to Be duly convicted of the crime of which she is accused; for Reparation of which my opinion Is that she be condemned to make honourable amends at the door of the church; to have her hand severed Then that she be Burned alive [having been] previously tortured to reveal her accomplices; at montreal on this fourth day of June Seventeen Hundred thirty-four.

[signed] F Pailleur

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 François Lepailleur de Laferté, counsellor and judge, June 4, 1734.

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