Citation |
MG-A(G.760.041
15 May 1760:11,12 (784)
Versailles, Feb. 22. M. de Villemur, who was ordered by the
court to see the officers of a certain regiment at Metz
exemplarily punished, arrived there the 4th in the evening,
and immediately ordered such of the delinquents as were at
liberty to be put under arrest. Next morning the Generale
was beat, and when the troops were all under arms, M. de
Villemur, ordered strict silence to be observed on pain of
death. He then read, with a loud voice, the sentence, by
which three captains were condemned to be broke on the
wheel, . . .
|