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BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre-Augustin Caron de). Mémoires de M. Caron de Beaumarchais, (...), accusé de corruption de juge. Contre M. Goëzman, conseiller de Grand-Chambre au Parlement de Paris, accusé de subornation & de faux. Mme Goëzman, & le sieur Bertrand, accused. Le sieur Marin, gazetier de France, & le sieur Darnaud-Baculard, conseiller d'ambassade, summoned as witnesses. Paris, Ruault, 1773. In-4, [2]-42-64-78-[2]-28-108-[1]-24-8 pp. half marbled basane with corners, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Beaumarchais. First in-4 edition of this collection of most of the memoirs written by Beaumarchais to defend himself against the accusation of corruption brought against him by the councillor Goëzman. Goëzman was the judge in the case pitting the playwright against the Comte de la Blache, heir to the famous financier Pâris-Duverney, for a disputed debt of 15,000 livres. Ex-libris Mme Guillebon de Neuilly.

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BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre-Augustin Caron de). Mémoires de M. Caron de Beaumarchais, (...), accusé de corruption de juge. Contre M. Goëzman, conseiller de Grand-Chambre au Parlement de Paris, accusé de subornation & de faux. Mme Goëzman, & le sieur Bertrand, accused. Le sieur Marin, gazetier de France, & le sieur Darnaud-Baculard, conseiller d'ambassade, summoned as witnesses. Paris, Ruault, 1773. In-4, [2]-42-64-78-[2]-28-108-[1]-24-8 pp. half marbled basane with corners, spine ribbed and decorated (period binding). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Beaumarchais. First in-4 edition of this collection of most of the memoirs written by Beaumarchais to defend himself against the accusation of corruption brought against him by the councillor Goëzman. Goëzman was the judge in the case pitting the playwright against the Comte de la Blache, heir to the famous financier Pâris-Duverney, for a disputed debt of 15,000 livres. Ex-libris Mme Guillebon de Neuilly.

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[BEAUMARCHAIS (Pierre-Augustin Caron de)]. Recueil de pièces relatives au célèbre procès de Beaumarchais contre Goezman: - Mémoires de M. Caron de Beaumarchais [...] accusé de corruption de juge, contre M. Goëzman [...] accusé de subornation & de faux, Mme Goëzman & le sieur Bertrand, accusés, le sieur Marin, Gazetier de France, & le Sieur Darnaud-Baculard, conseiller d'ambassade, assignés comme témoins. Paris, Ruault, 1774. [1]-40 pp. - Supplément au mémoire à consulter pour Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais [...] slnd [Paris, imprimerie Quillau, 1773]. 64 pp. - Addition au supplément du mémoire à consulter [...] slnd. [Paris, Imprimerie Pierres, 1774]. 78 pp. - Quatrième mémoire à consulter pour Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais [...] et réponse ingénue à leurs mémoires, gazettes, lettres courantes, cartels, injures, & mille & une diffamations. slnd. [Paris, Imprimerie Clousier, 1774]. 109 pp. - Requête d'atténuation pour le Sr Caron de Beaumarchais. slnd [Paris, Knapen, 1773]. [1]-28 pp. Small in-4 half calf, ornate spine, title page in red marble, red edges (contemporary binding). Some minor rubbing. Large, handsome armorial bookplate engraved and pasted on the flyleaf. The famous Goezman affair, which gripped the French and European public and the press of the time, began on July 17, 1770 with the death of financier Joseph Paris Duverney. The latter had made testamentary dispositions in favor of his associate Beaumarchais, which were soon strongly contested by the Count of La Blache, the financier's universal legatee. Although Beaumarchais won the first instance against La Blache in 1772, the case was taken up again in 1773 by Judge Goëzman, a renowned criminal lawyer. Several months of fast-paced proceedings followed, during which Beaumarchais published his satirical and highly virulent Mémoires against the judge and his entourage, which caused a scandal at court. The affair came to an end on February 26, 1774: the Parlement de Paris condemned Beaumarchais to a reprimand and a fine (the latter, stripped of his civic rights, would never rest until he regained the Court's favor), Beaumarchais' memoirs had to be torn up and burned, and Goëtzman resigned from his position. Attached: Mémoire à consulter et consultation pour Madame la Comtesse de Mirabeau. Sur l'imprimé à Aix, à Avignon, de l'imprimerie des libraires associés, 1783. In-12 paperback, dust jacket. 186 pp. (last 20 pages missing). Some brown spotting.