Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-09

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The Maid Was With Them
Jean Roche entered into a plot with
several citizens for the purpose of driv-
ing the Armagnacs out of the city. The
Plot was to be carried out on Easter
Sunday, which fell in that year on April
20. The Armagnacs, however, discovered
it, and straightway they imprisoned the
conspirators and passed sentence on
them. On the first Saturday in May
the Seigneur de POurs was taken in
a cart to the place of execution, to-
gether with Durand de Brie, dyer and
captain of the sixteenth company of
crossbowmen of Paris, and Jean Per-
quin, a pin maker and dealer in brass.
Their heads were cut off and the body
of the Seigneur de l'Ours was hung up
at Montfaucon and remained there until
the arrival of the Burgundians. Six
weeks after that event, namely, in
July of the year 1913, it was taken down
from the gibbet, together with several
other bodies and buried in consecrated
ground.
Now, Jean Roche had married a
widow, who, by her first husband, had a
daughter named Jeannette. This girl
was married first to Bernard lie Breton
and after his death to Jaquet Gull
laume, who was a poor man. He owed
money to Master Jean Fleury, who was
To- nd ha Ii erfe
wife was no better off than he was, for
her stepfather's property had been con-
fiscated and she had been obliged to
spend considerable money in clearing
off encumbrances for her mother S
estate. In the year 1924 she and her
husband, finding themselves in great
need of money, applied to Master Jean
Fleury, whom they knew to be very
accommodating in this respect when
ever he thought he could gain some
thing thereby.
The lawyer and kings secretary lent
them some money and they agreed to
pay as interest eighteen per cent per
annum of their present income and a
proportionate sum if their income
should be increased at any future time.
Among the pieces of property which
were mortgaged in this manner was a
house having a kneading trough as a
sign which Jeanette had inherited and
which was in Paris in the Rue Saint
Antoine Now, some time after Master
Jean Fleury had loaned them the money
Jaquet and his wife sold this home to
Alexandra des Mares, a money changer
of Paris, and failed to inform him that
Jean Fleury held a mortgage on it for
an amount equal to eighteen per cent
of its annual income.
One month after he had bought and
paid for his house Alexandra des Mares
discovered that Jaquet and his Wife
had deceived him. He therefore went to
them and reproached them, but they
replied;
1--WE had no intention of letting that
mortgage remain on the house, for we
propose to pay it off as soon as ever we
| can. And we do not think that we have
deceived you, for our earnest desire and
! intention is to use the money which we
have received from you in freeing our
selves from the mortgage, which al
present encumbers all our own prop
erty, as well as the house which we
have sold to you. You ought not, there
fore to be dlspleased with us"
Thereupon by a contract entered into
with Master Jean Fleury and Alexan-
DIRE des Mares Jaquet and his wife
bound themselves TO pay the interest
which was due and TO clear the prop
erty Of the mortgage, guaranteeing
this interest. Consequently they paid
1887, namely. 7sf. to Alexandra des
Mares and S5f. to Master Jean Fleury
Thereupon the latter declared himself
satisfied, and the mortgage on the
house which the former had bought
was cancelled.
Nevertheless, Alexandra des Mares
made formal complaint to the author
tiles, alleging that Jaquet and his wife
were swindlers. and straightway the