Picture No | 10025923 |
Date | 1757 |
Description | LOUIS XV / DAMIENS |
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Robert-Francois Damiens, perhaps encouraged by Jesuits, tries to assassinate Louis XV, but is executed (it takes 75 minutes !) after appalling tortures
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Source | Theophile Fragonard in Boucher Histoire des Jesuites (1845) volume 2 page 304 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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