Causes célèbres et intéressantes, avec les jugemens qui les ont décidées 3, 5, 14/22 - Gayot de Pitaval, François 1673-1743 (The Hague Neaulme, 1735)
Correct year? The Neaulme edition began in 1747? Gayot de Pitaval (1673-1743) was a French lawyer who recorded numerous pithy scandals, such as de Affaire des Poisons
A cause célèbre is an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate. The term continues in the media in all senses. It is sometimes used positively for celebrated legal cases for their precedent value and more often negatively for infamous ones, whether for scale, outrage, scandal, or conspiracy theories. The term is a French phrase in common usage in English. In French, cause means, here, a legal case, and célèbre means "famous". The phrase originated with the 37-volume Nouvelles Causes Célèbres, published in 1763, which was a collection of reports of well-known French court decisions from the 17th and 18th centuries.
Keywords: 18th Century (1701-1800); History; Law; Biography; France