Deposition of Marguerite César dit Lagardelette, 7th witness, audience of 8 AM, 15 April 1734.

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Appeared Marguerite Cesar aged Fifty-Two to Fifty-three years, lodged since the burning of Her House at Mr le Baron de Longueüil,

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Deposed [...] that About half an hour or three quarters of an hour before the fire appeared on the roof of the house of the said lady francheville, She who is deposing, Leaning In Her window On the Street, saw the Said Negress in front of the House of her Mistress in the Street; Who as a person Worried, Looked From Side to Side And Stopped at length, her face turned Towards she who is Deposing. She saw her Then Enter Into The House and quickly thereafter Come Out She returned to her Previous posture Staring at Length Towards Her And Then Towards the Carrefour de l'hôpital. And She who is Deposing, having enough of seeing her Out of the ordinary, And wanting to attempt to Know the Reason she held Herself

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So Long in This posture Knowing Her [to be] in constant Movement and Never Staying In place, She Went into the Street to see What the said Negress appeared to want to discover. And She who is Deposing Being fatigued And Seeing Nothing at One End or the Other of The street that caused the said Negress to Stare for So Long She Entered into Her House to rest Being Indisposed. And hardly had She sat that was heard a Cry of Fire. That she Knows the said Negress to be Bad; that one girl who Lives At parant the youngnamed Marie Joseph as he can recall her name passed in the Street while the said Negress was there, As she said Previously; that Having taken Refuge with the Sisters at the Hospital The Night of the Fire the Surgeon Named Boudard Told Her, And the Sisters with whom She Was, that he had just then Chased away The said Negress that he had found Laid Out with two men in the jardin des pauvres, that it Is all she said she Knew[...]

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And having Requested Salary We requited Her with thirty Sols, And she signed

[signed]marguerite cesar

[signed]P. Raimbault