Note 38 — Front matter (continued 2)

Guichard was convicted of the charge of attempted poisoning, declared "infamous," and sentenced to the amende honorable and to pay a heavy fine, while the printers of the memoir in which he had libelled Armande and others were also punished. He appealed against the sentence, which, in the following year, was quashed, a result undoubtedly due to the fact that he had powerful protectors at Court.