THE CASE OF THE COUNT OF MORANGIÈS. 1773. 2 Briefs: “Summary - Lot 113

THE CASE OF THE COUNT OF MORANGIÈS. 1773. 2 Briefs: “Summary on Behalf of Pierre GILBERT, Appellant; Against the Count of MORANGIÈS; And Against the Attorney General. ” Paris: P.G. SIMON, Parliamentary Printer, 1773: 24 pages, in-4° + “Reply to the Latest Writings of the Count of MORANGIÈS and His Supporters. ” In Paris, published by P.G. SIMON, Printer to Parliament, 1773: 58 pages, in-4°—(Having fallen out with his family, the Count de MORANGIÈS was imprisoned in the Conciergerie on February 11, 1773. The famous philosophers VOLTAIRE and Simon-Nicolas-Henri LINGUET defended him before the Parliament of Paris. Convicted in his first trial, he was acquitted in the second and released from prison.)