Peter1469
01-06-2014, 05:40 PM
by drawing and quartering: (http://www.executedtoday.com/2008/03/28/1757-robert-francois-damiens-discipline-and-punish/)
On this date in 1757, Robert-Francois Damiens became the last Frenchman to suffer the dreadful punishment of drawing and quartering.
Damiens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens) attempted to assassinate King Louis XV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV_of_France), inflicting, however, only a slight dagger wound.
He may be best-known today as the subject of the jarring opening passage of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679752552/exectoda-20), in which the full flower of this medieval torture* is described in detail by way of contrasting it with the regimented penal institutions that would sprout up in a few decades’ time. Here’s Foucault’s rendering (http://foucault.info/documents/disciplineAndPunish/foucault.disciplineAndPunish.torture.en.html) of the scene:
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On this date in 1757, Robert-Francois Damiens became the last Frenchman to suffer the dreadful punishment of drawing and quartering.
Damiens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-Fran%C3%A7ois_Damiens) attempted to assassinate King Louis XV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV_of_France), inflicting, however, only a slight dagger wound.
He may be best-known today as the subject of the jarring opening passage of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679752552/exectoda-20), in which the full flower of this medieval torture* is described in detail by way of contrasting it with the regimented penal institutions that would sprout up in a few decades’ time. Here’s Foucault’s rendering (http://foucault.info/documents/disciplineAndPunish/foucault.disciplineAndPunish.torture.en.html) of the scene:
warning graphic text.