The History of a Crime


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framed an official report, drew up a protest, and recognizing the  
necessity of filling in the line left blank in their decree, on the  
proposition of M. Quesnault, appointed as Procureur-General M. Renouard,  
their colleague at the Court of Cessation. M. Renouard, who was  
immediately informed, consented.  
They met together for the last time on the next day, the 3d, at eleven  
o'clock in the morning, an hour before the time mentioned in the judgment  
which we have read above,--again in the Library of the Court of  
Cassation. M. Renouard was present. An official minute was given to him,  
recording his appointment, as well as certain details with which he asked  
to be supplied. The judgment which had been drawn up was taken by M.  
Quesnault to the Recorder's Office, and immediately entered upon the  
Register of the Secret Deliberations of the Court of Cassation, the High  
Court not having a Special Register, and having decided, from its  
creation, to use the Register of the Court of Cassation. After the decree  
they also transcribed the two documents described as follows on the  
Register:--  
I. An official report recording the interference of the police during the  
discussion upon the preceding decree.  
II. A minute of the appointment of M. Renouard to the office of  
Procureur-General.  
In addition seven copies of these different documents drawn up by the  
hands of the judges themselves, and signed by them all, were put in a  
place of safety, as also, it is said, a note-book, in which were written  
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