Guy TARGET (1733-1806) lawyer, deputy to the States General, father of the Constitution of 1791, he refused to defend Louis XVI. L.A.S., November 25, 1776, to the Duchess of LORGES; 1 page small in-4.
His health allows him "hardly to satisfy the old commitments I have made for the pleading", and he cannot make new ones. "I will be very flattered to respond to the confidence of Madame la Duchesse de Lorges, and if I cannot defend her myself, I will make it my duty and honor to contribute otherwise to her success...
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