[HALLOT (François de Montmorency du). Arestum curiae Parlamenti Normaniae translatae Cadomi, datum contra Christophorum d'Alegre Dominum loci, & sui criminis conscios [...] commissum in persona defuncti Nobilis Domini Frãncisci de Montmorency, Domni de Hallot [...] sl, sn, 1593. Small 16 pp. in-8, with handwritten apostille signed in fine by [Séraphin] Thielement (counsellor, clerk and secretary to the King). BORCH, brown cover. "Famous affair which caused a scandal at the time". "HALLOT (François de Montmorency du), lieutenant-general of Henri IV in Normandy, brave and valiant lord, was murdered treacherously and in cold blood in his house in Vernon, on 13 Sept. 1592, by the Marquis d'Alègre, baron de St-Just, governor of Gisors. Following this murder, d'Alègre withdrew to the Duke of Mayenne, and managed to avoid the punishment due to his crime." Frère (II, 61.) Ex-libris JM.