1638: Four Frenchmen in effigy
Add comment January 5th, 2012 Headsman
We have touched in the past on the odd practice of executing effigies of criminals, a custom for which France had a particular penchant.
On this date in 1638, mannequins of Andre Armand, Gabriel Bonnaud, Sebastien Mareschal, and Simon Armand were “hanged” for murder.
As described in this French text, proceedings were delayed when, the previous November, the wife and mother-in-law of one of the absconded offenders appealed the sentence in their own inimitable way: by vandalizing the mannequins.
Thanks to Sonechka for deciphering the archaic French.
Also on this date
- 1655: Jane Hopkins, Bermuda's last known witch execution
- 1917: Sub-Lt. Edwin Dyett, shot at dawn
- 1993: Westley Allan Dodd, child molester
- 1527: Felix Manz, the first Anabaptist martyr
- 1463: Not François Villon
Entry Filed under: 17th Century,Capital Punishment,Common Criminals,Crime,Death Penalty,Executed in Effigy,Execution,France,Hanged,History,Mass Executions,Murder,Not Executed,Public Executions
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