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The Parisian court saves an innocent woman, 1786. .
Ordre des avocats de Paris . XVIIIe siècle. Engraving, 36,8x25cm..In 1781, Marie Salmon, servant to a bourgeois family in Caen, was wrongly accused of having poisoned the master of the house. She was condemned to be burnt alive by the judges in Caen in 1782. But serious procedural irregularities were revealed and the case, which impassioned public opinion, was sent before the parliaments of Rouen then Paris.When the Parisian court found the accused woman innocent, an enthusiastic crowd celebrated their decision..
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