Tableau de l'affaire criminelle de M. de Lally.
Contributors: Lally, Thomas-Arthur, comte de, 1702-1766.
Published: 1761
Language: fre
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Lally, Thomas-Arthur, comte de, 1702-1766 -- Trials, litigation, etc.; Trials (Treason) -- France -- Paris.; Manuscripts, French.
Other titles: Affaire de Monsieur de Lally.
Notes: Ms.
Title from p. [7].  Two spine titles: Affaire de Mr. de Lally; Tableau de l'affaire criminelle de Mr. de Lally.
Repertory of documentary evidence against the accused in the case of Comte de Lally, through 1761 governor of the French possessions in India, charged with treason; followed by similar repertories for dossiers of 16 codefendants.
Each codefendant's section is introduced by a half title: "Tableau de l'affaire du ..." (Sr. Allen, Sr. Pouilly, Sr. Chaponnay, Sr. Gadeville, Sr. Daché, Sr. Meagher, Sr. Chambois, Sr. de Ferre, Sr. Bazin, Sr. Rochette, Sr. Ramalinga, Père Frinck, "de deux gardes du Sr. de Lally," Vicomte de Fumel, Dechaux, Gossier; the three last named without any actual entries).
Bookplate of Château de Sassy.
Written most probably in France.
Each spread of two facing pages is divided in 6 columns of which the first gives resumés of the charges, arranged chronologically according to the sequence of war events; the remaining columns are inventory-type lists, with dossier numbers and indications of extent but without the texts, of the several kinds of documents: "Dépositions des témoins," "Confrontations des témoins," "Interrogatoires," and "Confrontations des accusés au Sr. de Lally"; this, the 5th column is blank in the codefendants' cases, and the 6th column is blank throughout.
Many pages, including the first six and p. [196-236] are pre-ruled but blank.