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LYON] - Collection of all the pieces concerning the lawsuit of the lawyers and doctors of the city of Lion, against the traitor of the research of the false nobles. With the decision of the Council of January 4, 1699, against the use of lawyers and doctors to be called noble. Lyon, L. Plaignard, 1700. In-4, (6) ff. 306 pp. yellowed paper, brown gran. calf, spine ribbed and decorated, headbands faded, small epid. and light stains. SAFFROY II, 28291. Collection of documents justifying the position of the lawyers and doctors of Lyon against the accusation of usurpation of the title of nobility. Contains the factums of their defender Laurent Gillet, lawyer at the seneschal and the presidial of Lyon. This case, because of its social consequences, was the object of much attention.