Quartering
see also: Etymology of Quartering
The quartering is a torment used to give death by the simultaneous separation of the four members of the trunk of the body. It was also useful within the framework of the legal Torture.
Presentation
In France, the cruelty of this torment held it for exceptionally serious crimes. Under the Old Mode, it was intended for the Régicide S. Before his body is broken by quartering, condemned was stripped. One bound his members to the four horses draft; then one practiced notches at the joints, in order to facilitate the rupture; sometimes the hand which had held the weapon of the crime was burned with the Soufre.One employed usually horses, but within the framework of a legal torture, one used hoists, which made it possible to proportion the tension exerted on the members and to make last the torment.
In Asia and particularly in India, it was sometimes used elephant S, in particular before a execution.
Quartered famous
Historical characters
- 1589 : Jacques Clement, Dominican monk , assassin of the king Henri III. The Père François Bourgoing undergoes the same fate.
- 1594 : Jean Châtel, 19 year old young man, for attempted murder of the king Henri IV
- 1610: François Ravaillac, assassin of Henri IV, king de France
- 1740: Pierre Péquigat, leader of a country revolt in Switzerland
- 1757: Robert François Damiens, author of an attempted murder of Louis XV
Characters of novels
- Ganelon, character of the Song of Roland, quartered for treason
See too
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