ROUEN (76). PARIS. Lot n° 146

Memorandum of trial of 1731, concerning a CHILD DEAD IN BED: "Sentence of January 26, 1731, which appoints the Sieur JORE to the proof that his Child was born alive." - From the printing office of JORE, next to the Hôtel de Monseigneur le Premier Président. (in ROUEN); 19 pp large in-folio. "The umbilical cord being already black: that the child has not uttered any cry, stirred any limb, nor given any other sign of life or breathing: that after the death of the mother, there was a dispute between those who said that the child is alive & those who said that he was dead..."