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PODCAST. Hero of the war of independence against the English, the Scottish knight ends up being captured and condemned to atrocious torture.
Frederic Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos
Published on 08/22/2012 at 11:59 p.m. – Modified on 08/22/2023 at 11:45 p.m.
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France before the Revolution had a pretty panoply of tortures to kill its criminals. The regicides had the right to quartering. Jacques Clément (assassin of Henri III), Ravaillac (Henri IV), Robert-François Damiens (attempted assassination of Louis XV) all tasted it reluctantly. Our dear British neighbours, even more sophisticated than us in matters of royal punishment, condemned the assassins of their kings to be “hanged, drawn and quartered”. Literally to be hanged, dragged and squared off. On August 23, 1305, the Scotsman William Wallace was one of the very first to undergo this specialty at the age of 33. Only the Welsh prince Dafydd ap Gruffydd had preceded him in the matter on October 3, 1283.
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