AFFAIRE DU COLLIER DE LA REINE (Historical background: this - Lot 58

AFFAIRE DU COLLIER DE LA REINE (Historical background: this notorious swindle was set up by Madame de la Motte at the expense of Cardinal de Rohan, to extract money from him. The trial lasted more than 10 months, this tenebrous intrigue captured the attention of the whole of Europe and brought public opinion against Marie-Antoinette and the monarchy into disrepute) / Important period manuscript notebook containing the Cardinal de Rohan's 1786 introductory petition to the Parliament, 30 p in-fol (worm damage, small loss of a few lines on the last 2 leaves), cover titled: "Affaire criminelle du Prince Louis Cardinal de Rohan Grand Aumônier": "Disant qu'on a fait servir à la fraude l'abus du nom le plus auguste. The King has referred to his Parliament the task of investigating the perpetrators. Such is the offence expressed in the Lettres-Patentes addressed to the Court" (this may be the copy in the hand of the lawyer Guy-Jean-Baptiste Target which was used by the publisher Emmanuel Flon to print this text in 1786, similarities in the handwriting may be noted, this hypothesis is fully mentioned here "sous réserve") / Enclosed: "Principes", period manuscript (same hand as above) taking up the arguments of the Défense du Cardinal de Rohan (4 p in-fol): "C'est une maxime incontestable que les Evêques étant sujets du Roy sont soumis à son autorité et qu'étant ses justiciables il a droit de les punir suivant les lois losqu'ils se rendent coupable de quelques crimes, mais il n'en est pas moins certain que, par une disciple qui remonte aux premiers siècles de l'Eglise, le jugement des Evêques accusés a été réservé au Concile de la Province...". / Attached: another period manuscript (same hand as above) of the Defense responding to M. d'Aguesseau's brief defending royal jurisdiction (2 p in-fol)