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[MANUSCRIT]. LIQUIDATION ET PARTAGE DES BIENS DES SUCCESSIONS de Mr. le M.[arqu]is et de Mme la M.[arqu]ise de Morangiés [etc.] déposés en projet avec le procès-verbal de visitte et estimation des biens immeubles et piececy relatives à Me. Ballet notaire à Paris par acte du 18 juin 1785. Small in-folio marbled fawn calf, boards decorated with a triple frame of gilded fillets, smooth spine cloisonné and decorated, garnet-red morocco title page, gilded edges (period binding); frontispiece, (1) title page, 59 ff. - 37 ff, (2) bl. ff, (4) pp. general summary, (8) bl. ff. Spine rubbed, headbands nicked and missing, beginning of split at upper spine. IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT on stamped paper of this document "redrafted by the parties by deed of October 17, 1788" which details the property of the marquis (or count), his wife and their children. LARGE COLOR ARMS of the MOLETTE DE MORANGIÈS, watercolored opposite the title page. "Pardevant les Conseillers du Roi Notaires au Chatelet de Paris soussignés, sont comparus très haut et très puissant Seigneur Pierre Philibert chevalier de Chavagnac, Mestre de camp cavalerie et Chevalier de l'Ordre royal et militaire de St. Louis [etc.]" and "De très haut et très puissant Seigneur Jean-François-Charles de Mollette Comte de Morangiès, chevalier seigneur Baron de St. Alban [etc.]". Jean-François-Charles de Mollette, comte (or marquis) de MORANGIÈS (1728-1801) was a French military officer and member of one of the largest baronies in Gévaudan. Widowed in 1756 (he had 3 children by this union), estranged from his family and crippled by debt, the Comte de Morangiès was imprisoned at the Conciergerie in 1773: Voltaire and philosopher Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet took up his defense before the Paris Parliament. Condemned at the first trial, he was acquitted at the second and released from prison. In 1774, the family fortune reverted to him on the death of his father. This was followed by a whirlwind romance with his maid, Marie-Louise Josephe de Lespignières, who abused his credulity, had him recognized as having a child of his own and, although already married, went on to marry the Count. On July 26, 1787, after a lengthy investigation and a trial at the Châtelet that raised the issue of bigamy, the "Countess" confessed to having used false identities and abused the Count de Morangiès's trust in order to marry him and obtain his property. Condemned to be tied for several hours to a post in the Place de Grève, she was branded and then imprisoned, as was the Comte de Morangiès, who was not judged innocent for all that. In 1791, the two lovers reunited and finally moved to Saint-Alban, much to the dismay of the Comte's family. The name of the Comte de Morangiès is also associated with the story of the BÊTE DU GÉVAUDAN: suspected since the 1930s, the Comte was officially accused in 1992 by wild animal specialist Michel Louis of being an accomplice in the crimes of the Bête du Gévaudan. This would be the revenge of a sadistic megalomaniac, "a fallen military man, calculating and unscrupulous", whose character is played by Vincent Cassel in the film Le Pacte des loups. The Comte de Moriangès died in 1801, murdered by his wife in circumstances that remain unclear.

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[MANUSCRIT]. LIQUIDATION ET PARTAGE DES BIENS DES SUCCESSIONS de Mr. le M.[arqu]is et de Mme la M.[arqu]ise de Morangiés [etc.] déposés en projet avec le procès-verbal de visitte et estimation des biens immeubles et piececy relatives à Me. Ballet notaire à Paris par acte du 18 juin 1785. Small in-folio marbled fawn calf, boards decorated with a triple frame of gilded fillets, smooth spine cloisonné and decorated, garnet-red morocco title page, gilded edges (period binding); frontispiece, (1) title page, 59 ff. - 37 ff, (2) bl. ff, (4) pp. general summary, (8) bl. ff. Spine rubbed, headbands nicked and missing, beginning of split at upper spine. IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT on stamped paper of this document "redrafted by the parties by deed of October 17, 1788" which details the property of the marquis (or count), his wife and their children. LARGE COLOR ARMS of the MOLETTE DE MORANGIÈS, watercolored opposite the title page. "Pardevant les Conseillers du Roi Notaires au Chatelet de Paris soussignés, sont comparus très haut et très puissant Seigneur Pierre Philibert chevalier de Chavagnac, Mestre de camp cavalerie et Chevalier de l'Ordre royal et militaire de St. Louis [etc.]" and "De très haut et très puissant Seigneur Jean-François-Charles de Mollette Comte de Morangiès, chevalier seigneur Baron de St. Alban [etc.]". Jean-François-Charles de Mollette, comte (or marquis) de MORANGIÈS (1728-1801) was a French military officer and member of one of the largest baronies in Gévaudan. Widowed in 1756 (he had 3 children by this union), estranged from his family and crippled by debt, the Comte de Morangiès was imprisoned at the Conciergerie in 1773: Voltaire and philosopher Simon-Nicolas-Henri Linguet took up his defense before the Paris Parliament. Condemned at the first trial, he was acquitted at the second and released from prison. In 1774, the family fortune reverted to him on the death of his father. This was followed by a whirlwind romance with his maid, Marie-Louise Josephe de Lespignières, who abused his credulity, had him recognized as having a child of his own and, although already married, went on to marry the Count. On July 26, 1787, after a lengthy investigation and a trial at the Châtelet that raised the issue of bigamy, the "Countess" confessed to having used false identities and abused the Count de Morangiès's trust in order to marry him and obtain his property. Condemned to be tied for several hours to a post in the Place de Grève, she was branded and then imprisoned, as was the Comte de Morangiès, who was not judged innocent for all that. In 1791, the two lovers reunited and finally moved to Saint-Alban, much to the dismay of the Comte's family. The name of the Comte de Morangiès is also associated with the story of the BÊTE DU GÉVAUDAN: suspected since the 1930s, the Comte was officially accused in 1992 by wild animal specialist Michel Louis of being an accomplice in the crimes of the Bête du Gévaudan. This would be the revenge of a sadistic megalomaniac, "a fallen military man, calculating and unscrupulous", whose character is played by Vincent Cassel in the film Le Pacte des loups. The Comte de Moriangès died in 1801, murdered by his wife in circumstances that remain unclear.

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Marambat - de Malafosse
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