Note 5 — Chapter I · A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF JOHN CALAS.
William F. Fleming translation
It is necessary for the English reader to understand that in Paris it is customary for the great lawyers or counsellors employed in any remarkable case to publish their pleadings on each side. On this occasion, however, our author observes, “that these publications were pirated in several towns, by which Mrs. Calas lost the advantage that was intended her by this act of generosity.”