Chronique du crime et de l'innocence, tome 6/8 / Recueil des événements les plus tragiques;...

This collection gathers notorious criminal cases from French history, arranged chronologically and drawn from chronicles, provincial histories, legal compilations, and judicial gazettes. It recounts murders, poisonings, parricides, political assassinations, massacres, and other violent offenses with narrative reconstructions of events, arrests, seized papers, and trial procedures. Entries mix contemporaneous testimony and later summaries to situate each affair within its social and political context. Occasional moral reflection and editorial comment accompany the dossiers, offering a forensic, narrative survey of crime and the workings of justice.