Morangiés, Jean-François-Charles de Mollette, comte de, active 18th century

found: Renwick, J. Voltaire et Morangiés, 1772-1773 ... 1982 (subj.)t.p. (Morangiés) p. 9, etc. (comte de Morangiés) p. 13 (Jean-François-Charles de Molette, comte de Morangiés, colonel de Languedoc-Infanterie and afterwards maréchal de camp; )

found: Déclaration de Monsieur de Voltaire, sur le procès entre M. le comte de Morangies & les Verron, 1773

found: BnF, Apr. 23, 2014(no authority record; usage in conventional titles: "Factum. Morangiès, Jean-François-Charles de Molette (comte de)")

found: VIAF, Apr. 23, 2014:VIAF ID: 77690312 (Morangiés, Jean-François-Charles de Mollette,‏ ‎comte de,‏ ‎active 18th century‏); VIAF ID: 25526496 (Morangiés, Jean-François-Charles de Mollette‏ ‎1728-‏ ) VIAF ID: 281343818 (Morangiés, Jean François Charles de Molette) VIAF ID: 188615248 (Morangiès, Jean-François-Charles de Molette,‏ ‎1726-....,‏ ‎comte de‏)

found: French Wikipedia, Apr. 23, 2014(article title "Jean-François-Charles de Molette"; Jean François Charles de La Molette, comte de Morangiès, born Feb. 22 1728, died 1801; French military officer and reputed serial killer; member of the Gendarmes de la garde du roi of Louis XV during the War of the Austrian Succession; led the Régiment de Languedoc as colonel in the Seven Years' War; attained the rank of maréchal de camp; heavily indebted, he was sued by some of his creditors and imprisoned in the Conciergerie, Feb. 11, 1773; condemned in the first instance but acquitted on appeal and released from prison; inherited his father's huge fortune in 1774; lived in Holland, Frankfurt and Metz, then returned to France after a second mariage; killed by his wife in 1801. Some modern investigators have speculated that he was responsible for part of a series of killings attributed at the time to the so-called Beast of Gévaudan, a huge wolf or wolf-like creature that fatally attacked many children and others in the Gévaudan region of France between 1764 and 1767, though there is no credible evidence to support these claims)

found: Maza, S. "The Véron-Morangiès Affair, 1771-1773," in Historical reflections, summer 1992:page 101-102 (Jean-François de Molette, Count of Morangiès, field-marshal in the royal army; in fall of 1771, he arranged to borrow 300,000 livres from François Liegard-Dujonquay, one of a family of money brokers (with his mother Geneviève Gaillard-Roman and his grandmother the widow Véron); a dispute arose between the parties over whether the money had been received; the case was argued in the Bailliage du Palais and the Parlement of Paris, with Morangiès eventually cleared of charges of swindling and bribery and awarded damages)

found: Voltaire. Œuvres de 1772 (Voltaire. Works. 1968-, v. 74A), 2006:pages 347-352 (chronological summary of events in the Morangiés affair, Sept. 1771-Sept. 1773)

notfound: La Grande enc.;Cioranescu, A. Bib. de la litt. franç. du 18e s., 1969; Biographie universelle