[BRINVILLIERS]. Factum for Dame Marie Magdelaine d'Aubray, M - Lot 81

[BRINVILLIERS]. Factum for Dame Marie Magdelaine d'Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, defendant. Against Dame Marie Therese Mangot [...] accuser. Followed by : Mémoire du Procez extraordinaire contre la dame de Brinvilliers et Arrest de la cour de Parlement. First edition of the Memoire and Factum of the most famous poisoning trial in French history. Paris and Rouen, Thomas le Gentil and Pierre Cailloüe, 1676. In-4, brown granulated basane, spine ribbed, decorated with gilt fleurons, gilt title, decorated endpapers. Contemporary binding. 47 pp, 20 pp and 4 pp, title finials, two headbands, a few initials. Binding rubbed and slightly dusted, head blown off, leather added at foot and head of spine, very rare spotting. First edition of this very rare Factum and Memoir of the trial of Marie-Madeleine Dreux d'Aubray dite La Brinvilliers, beheaded on July 17, 1676 for the crime of fratricide by poisoning. It is signed by Mr. Nivelle, Mr. de Brinvilliers' lawyer. Following: - Mémoire du procez extraordinaire contre la dame de Brinvilliers, prisonnière en la conciergerie du Palais, accusé (same publisher and date, 20 pp.). - Arrest de la cour de Parlement, les chambres assemblées, contre Dame Marie Marguerite Daubray, épouse du Sieur Marquis de Brinvilliers. July 16, 1676. Paris: Jacques Villery and Rouen: Pierre Cailloüe, 1676 (4 pp.). The ruling states that "the Court has declared and declares the said Daubray de Brinvilliers convinced of having poisoned... and condemns the said d'Aubray de Brinvilliers to make honorable amends in front of the main door of the church of Paris, where she will be led in a tombereau, barefoot, with a rope around her neck holding in her hands a burning torch weighing two pounds....after which she will be taken in the said tombereau to the place de grève of this city, to have her head cut off on a scaffold which will be erected for this purpose in the said place, her body burned and the ashes thrown to the wind...". Extremely rare document, well preserved in its original binding.