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Ravaillac was quartered in the most horrible way (it took very long for the limbs to be detached from the body), Damiens was wheeled and tortured, Chatel i don't remember.

As for women, they were some cases women who were eventually broken on the wheel. That was very rare, indeed, but it happened, for example in Lille (north of France) in 1683 : http://histoiresdebourreaux.blogspot.fr/2010/02/une-femme-rouee-lille-1683.html

I don't know for the other european countries, but I think they were no less cruel than France.
 
toma said:
Ravaillac was quartered in the most horrible way (it took very long for the limbs to be detached from the body), Damiens was wheeled and tortured, Chatel i don't remember.
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The execution of Damiens as retold by Foucault is best described as torture followed by quartering with horses, I think.

toma said:
As for women, they were some cases women who were eventually broken on the wheel. That was very rare, indeed, but it happened, for example in Lille (north of France) in 1683 : http://histoiresdebourreaux.blogspot.fr/2010/02/une-femme-rouee-lille-1683.html
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Great link, thank you! I used to think no French women were broken on the wheel.
 
messaline said:
Well, all that is good and certainly the reality, but my fantasy is coming first in my stories and never mind the History !:D:rolleyes:
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Mais certainement, although I seem to recall there really were women suspected of being Ravaillac's accomplices, du Tillet and Verneuil.

And -- if you want to kill le Vert Galant, you truly deserve everything the Ancien Régime can throw at you! :smash2:
 
Or for a change see this aside to the execution of Damien (from ExecutedToday.com)
One of the legendary libertine’s friends (i.e Casonova who rented a house to watch) found this moment, serenaded by the prisoner’s “piercing shrieks”, opportune for an altogether different adventure of the flesh:
The three ladies packing themselves together as tightly as possible took up their positions at the window, leaning forward on their elbows, so as to prevent us seeing from behind. The window had two steps to it, and they stood on the second; and in order to see we had to stand on the same step, for if we had stood on the first we should not have been able to see over their heads. I have my reasons for giving these minutiae, as otherwise the reader would have some difficulty in guessing at the details which I am obliged to pass over in silence.
Tiretta kept the pious aunt curiously engaged during the whole time of the execution, and this, perhaps, was what prevented the virtuous lady from moving or even turning her head round.
Finding himself behind her, he had taken the precaution to lift up her dress to avoid treading on it. That, no doubt, was according to the rule; but soon after, on giving an involuntary glance in their direction, I found that Tiretta had carried his precautions rather far, and, not wishing to interrupt my friend or to make the lady feel awkward, I turned my head and stood in such a way that my sweetheart could see nothing of what was going on; this put the good lady at her ease. For two hours after I heard a continuous rustling, and relishing the joke I kept quiet the whole time. I admired Tiretta’s hearty appetite still more than his courage, but what pleased me most was the touching resignation with which the pious aunt bore it all.​
 
phlebas said:
When I arrived in Britain in 1988 I was surprised to see that they still had page three girls, they had disappeared from his newspapers in Australia years before. That they lasted until just recently is remarkable.

You hear the term bogof in British supermarkets - buy one, get one free.

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Now this has me wet! if I have to go like this, I would hope for one final "push" to send me over the edge as my life slips away..... pardon me for a moment, I need to "take care of something."
 
The ordeal of the wheel was practiced in several stages.
1) The prisoner was totally naked and tied to a cross of Saint Andrew (X-shaped).
2) The executioner placed on both sides a piece of wood under each limb.
3) Executioner then took a bar and broke each member on each side of each articualtion; Forearm, thighs, legs, he could also break his shoulders. Then either he gave a blow to the chest to finish the tortured, or he broke the pelvis.
4) Then, the supllicié was detached and the hangman attached it on a wheel in tissantses limbs, the hands touching the feet.
5) The wheel was hoisted on a pole and the condemned left there until death which would be long to come.
 
voyeurjerome said:
The ordeal of the wheel was practiced in several stages.
1) The prisoner was totally naked and tied to a cross of Saint Andrew (X-shaped).
2) The executioner placed on both sides a piece of wood under each limb.
3) Executioner then took a bar and broke each member on each side of each articualtion; Forearm, thighs, legs, he could also break his shoulders. Then either he gave a blow to the chest to finish the tortured, or he broke the pelvis.
4) Then, the supllicié was detached and the hangman attached it on a wheel in tissantses limbs, the hands touching the feet.
5) The wheel was hoisted on a pole and the condemned left there until death which would be long to come.
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In an alternate method - most commonly used east of the Rhine - the condemned was spread-eagled on the ground. Wooden blocks or a ladder like frame would be positioned under the limbs. The executioner used a wheel - possible the one later used for the braiding - to smash the limbs and joints. This method doesn't seem to have inspired as many artist as the iron bar breaking.
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Naraku said:
In an alternate method - most commonly used east of the Rhine - the condemned was spread-eagled on the ground. Wooden blocks or a ladder like frame would be positioned under the limbs. The executioner used a wheel - possible the one later used for the braiding - to smash the limbs and joints. This method doesn't seem to have inspired as many artist as the iron bar breaking.
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Gruesome ... :confused:
 
geolier said:
great. but why didn't they remove the string to fully expose her?
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excellent work of Vico , but after such a torture this very beautiful poor victim would show much more deeply bleading wounds and brutally broken bones penetrating her flesh and skin -are there any more really realistic animations of this kind of torture existing ?
 
Who is please the Master of the fourth pic posted by Topcat onAug 18 2015. , exzellent gruesom imagination !
 
This thing was called "broken-on-the-wheel-machine"
Fantastic German invention. It made tying the victim to up in X shape easier and faster. The wood wedges on which to raise the limbs were running inside tracks for easy adjustment, so executioner could be sure that the bones cracked exactly where planned
 

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