Memoirs of the Sansons from private notes and documents, ed. by H. Sanson..Clément Henri Sanson 1876 |
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Abbé Abbeville accomplices ancestor Angélique answered appeared arrested asked Assembly assistants Barre became Blignac blood brother capital punishment Cardinal Cartouche Cartouche's Charlemagne Charles Henri Sanson Charles Jean-Baptiste Sanson Charles Sanson Charolais Châtelet Chevalier citizens Conciergerie confess Count de Horn Court Créqy crime criminal lieutenant crowd culprit Damiens death decapitation Duke execution executioner executioner's father favour Favras fear France functions Gabriel Sanson gave gentlemen girl Gomart Gorsas grandfather guillotine hand heard honour Hôtel-de-Ville inflicted Jean Jeanne Jouanne justice King Lally Lally-Tollendal Larcher livres looked Louis XIV Madame magistrate Marguerite Marie Antoinette Marquis Marquis de Favras Marthe Dubut Master Mathurin Mdme Monsieur Motte murder Paris Parliament Place de Grève police prince prisoner profession punishment Regent Rohan Sanson de Longval scaffold sentence soldiers suffer sword taken tion Tiquet told torture trial Versailles victim wife wished words young
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Página 104 - ... in the said cart, to the Place de Greve, where, on a scaffold that will be erected there, the flesh will be torn from his breasts, arms, thighs and calves with red-hot pincers, his right hand, holding the knife with which he committed the said parricide, burnt with sulphur, and, on those places where the flesh will be torn away, poured molten lead, boiling oil, burning resin, wax and sulphur melted together and then his body drawn and quartered by four horses and his limbs and body consumed by...
Página 104 - ... be pulled and dismembered by four horses, and the members and body consumed in fire, and the ashes scattered to the winds. The Court orders that his property be confiscated to the King's profit ; that before the said execution, Damiens be subjected to question ordinaire et extraordinaire, to make him confess the names of his accomplices. Orders that the house in which he was born be demolished, and that no other building be erected on the spot. 'Decreed by Parliament on March 26, 1757.
Página 128 - ... hand than his. Lally thanked him by an inclination of the head. Charles Henri Sanson now approached, and he was about to raise his sword when old Jean-Baptiste stopped him. With a firm hand, he took the gag out of the Count's mouth, and bowing respectfully : ' Monsieur le Comte,' he said, ' I am the master here. As it happened thirty-five years ago, you are my guest. Accept the supreme hospitality which I then promised you. You can speak if you like.
Página 104 - ... wearing only a shirt and holding a taper of the weight of two pounds ; and then, on his knees, he shall say and declare that, wickedly and with premeditation, he has perpetrated the said very wicked, very abominable, and very detestable parricide, and wounded the King with a knife in the right side, for which he repents and begs pardon of God, the King, and Justice ; and further the Court orders that he then be taken to the Greve and, on a scaffold erected for the purpose, that his chest, arms,...
Página 283 - My brother insisted, and added that it was indispensably necessary to bind hii hands. This last observation moved him greatly. He reddened, and exclaimed, ' What ! would you dare to touch me ? Here is my coat, but do not lay a finger on me ! ' After saying this he took off his coat. According to these memoirs, it does not appear that the king was prevented by those on the scaffold from speaking to the people. The noise made by the drums, on purpose to prevent any speech being heard, evidently troubled...
Página 284 - Are these drums going to sound for ever ? " " On reaching the platform, he advanced to the side where the crowd was the thickest, and made such an imperative sign that the drummers stopped for a moment. ' Frenchmen ! ' he exclaimed, in a strong voice, ' you see your king ready to die for you. May my blood cement your happiness ! I die innocent of what I am charged with!
Página 264 - ... when the history of the scaffold and the history of France are to be blended into one. In a few days the despised headsman shall become the key of the vault of the social edifice which is being constructed. Until then he could answer to those who saluted him with the insulting epithet of bourrcaii, ' Why do you despise me if you do not despise your laws...
Página 284 - Thus died the unfortunate prince, who might have been saved -by a thousand well-armed men and really I am at a loss to understand the notice which I received the day before the execution that some attempt at rescue was to be made The slightest signal would have been sufficient to cause a diversion in his favour : for if when Gros my assistant, showed the king's head to the multi tude some cries of triumph were uttered, the greater part of the crowd turned away with profounc horror.
Página 283 - Frenchmen," he then said, in a loud voice, " you see your king ready to die for you. May my blood cement your happiness. I die innocent of all that I have been accused of.
Página 104 - that he be taken to the Greve and, on a scaffold erected for the purpose, that his chest, arms, thighs, and calves be burnt with pincers; his right hand, holding the knife with which he committed the said parricide, burnt in sulphur ; that boiling oil, melted lead, and resin, and wax mixed with sulphur, be poured in his wounds; and after that his body be pulled and dismembered by four horses, and the members and body consumed by fire, and the ashes scattered to the winds. The court orders that his...