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Original Title: TIL One of the first recorded juveniles to be executed in France was Claudine de Culan, 16, who was executed in 1601 for beastiality with a dog, almost getting the charges dropped until the dog jumped on her during an examination by midwifes, her and the dog were burnt alive 13 days later

  • calliope@retrolemmy.com
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    12 days ago

    She wasn’t burned alive, she was hanged and her body burned.

    The court of Parliament ordered that Claudine would “be hanged on the gallows in the great square of Rognon, together with the dog, and that the corpses of both should then be cast into the fire with their ashes spread to the wind so that no possible trace might be left of their misdeeds, so that mankind might not be reminded of their monstrous misdeeds.”

    I thought that was interesting because I didn’t know hanging and then burning in the square was a thing.