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(MURDER.) La Vie de Jacques Pierlot, Prêtre & Marguillier de la Paroisse de Vervier . . . avec tous les détails de son crime, de sa degradation, & de son supplice. Etched frontispiece portrait of Pierlot and 4 plates showing his public degradation and punishment. 52 [i. e., 50] pages. 8vo, 167x110 mm, 19th-century 1/4 sheep; contents toned, dampstain at top of portrait and title, clean tear in lower inner corner of title repaired on verso, bottom line of caption cropped on second plate, last 2 leaves rehinged. Laid in is a copy of the 17 March 1786 Avertissemens de Liège, a handbill of local advertisements including one for this publication. Liège: Lemarié, 1786
Chapbook dealing with a Belgian priest and compulsive gambler who murdered a creditor and members of the latter's household. Sentenced by an ecclesiastical tribunal to degradation (i. e., permanent removal from clerical office), which was carried out in a public ceremony, he was then sentenced by a municipal tribunal to be tortured and strangled.
