committed suicide by hanging (see Voltaire, “Traité sur le tolérance,”
etc., in _Nouv. Philos. Histor._, 1772, xxxii., p. 30). He hung himself
to a door. No sign of violence. The city hangman said it was impossible
for a man to commit suicide in that way. The father was accused and
convicted of homicide. Tardieu shows that the act was a suicide.