Tag: bourreaux

• Les Bourreaux, France’s ‘Executors of High Works.’

  I recently had a brief Twitter conversation with a fellow scribe at Crime Traveller and these gentlemen came up therein, so I thought their story might be interesting to look at in more detail. ‘The Executor of High Works’ was a grandiose title for so unrelentingly grim a profession, especially one traditionally inherited by people…

  CrimeScribe

  November 27, 2018

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• On This Day in 1949; Germaine Leloy-Godefroy, last French woman to face the guillotine.

  

  She was the last woman in France to face the dreaded ‘Timbers of Justice.’

  CrimeScribe

  April 21, 2018

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