ABSTRACT
A Young man, native of Seez in Normandy, of noble parents, studied the law at Angers. He there saw Renee Corbeau, the daughter of a tradesman of the town, and under a promise of marriage seduced her. The young man signed the deed; but, feeling himself unworthily treated, in being thus surprized into an engagement which he had never refused to perform, he went immediately to his father, to whom he related all that had happened. The unfortunate girl, thus abandoned by her faithless lover, commenced, together with her parents, a suit against him for seduction. He was in consequence arrested, and the affair was brought before the parliament of Paris. The sentence, after long pleading on both sides, was, that the young man, should either marry Renee Corbeau, or be beheaded: as his being a priest made the former impossible, he was to suffer death.
