Affaire de Mr. de Lally
Subtitle: journal du père Lavaur, jésuite, supérieur des missions de son ordre.
Contributors: Lavaur, François-Louis de, 1700-1763.
Published: 1760
Language: fre
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Lally, Thomas-Arthur, comte de, 1702-1766 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Treason) -- France -- Paris.
Notes: Ms.
Binder's title.
Collection of documents (or copies of documents) relating to the trial of the comte de Lally, who was convicted of treason in 1766, partly on the basis of information found among the effects of Lavaur after his death in March of 1763. The Jesuit Lavaur was in charge of the mission in the Indian Carnatic at the time when Lally, French governor-general in India, surrendered Pondicherry to the British, the act which led to his execution as a traitor. Cf. Larousse and La Grande encycl. (under Lally), Backer-Sommervogel (under Lavaur). Not all of the documents, if any, are by Lavaur.
Purchase, 1938. With bookplate of the Chateau de Sassy.