Récit particulier du procez criminal de Monsieur le Mareschal de Biron / composé par Messire Jacques de La Guesle, procureur géné du roi, 1602. -- between 1602 and 1700.

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La Guesle, Jacques de, 1557-1612. Récit particulier du procez criminal de Monsieur le Mareschal de Biron / composé par Messire Jacques de La Guesle, procureur géné du roi, 1602. -- between 1602 and 1700.

Récit particulier du procez criminal de Monsieur le Mareschal de Biron / composé par Messire Jacques de La Guesle, procureur géné du roi, 1602. -- between 1602 and 1700.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779847731

A 17th (or early18th) century French manuscript consisting of a description of the trial of Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron, who engaged in intrigues with Spain and Savoy aiming at the overthrow of the Bourbon dynasty, the dismemberment of the kingdom of France into provincial states, and his own elevation to the sovereignty of Burgundy. After fulfilling diplomatic missions for Henry IV. in England and Switzerland (1600), he was accused and convicted of high treason and was beheaded in the Bastille on the 31st of July 1602. Cf. 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica, and the New International Encyclopaedia, 1905.

185 leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)

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