HIST 436 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Stratus Cloud
HIST 436 – Lecture 2 – January 15, 2018
18th Century Crime and Punishment: France & New France
Story of Marie-Joseph Angelique
• Slave in Montreal, New France
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other buildings
• No persons were injured, only property
• Tortured into admitting to the crime, subsequently hanged and body burned in
front of a crowd
Story of Damiens, France
• Attempted to kill the king
• Was condemned to make
amende honorable
• His body was burnt (alive), he was then drawn and quartered; an especially cruel
punishment/death
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Physical/Public Punishment in France & New France
• Meant to deter others from committing the same crimes
• A hierarchy of crimes and punishments, set out in official crime documents
• To exact a measure of vengeance
• To maintain social order
Crime & Sentencing
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• If victims were of high social status and offender was of lower stratus of society,
the more likely the accused would be more severely punished;
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