People Executed by the Ancien Rgime - Marie-Joseph Anglique, Jean-Franois de La Barre, Robert-Franois Damiens, Jacques Chausson (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Marie-Joseph Anglique, Jean-Franois de La Barre, Robert-Franois Damiens, Jacques Chausson, Franois Mackandal, Thomas Arthur, Comte de Lally, Enguerrand de Marigny, Lucilio Vanini, Barnab Brisson, Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite D'aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, La Voisin, Gabriel, Comte de Montgomery, Jacques D'armagnac, Duke of Nemours, Jean Calas, Guy der de La Fontenelle, Robert Macaire, Peronne Goguillon, Joseph Boniface de La Mle, Antoine Franois Desrues, Franois de Beauvais, Seigneur de Briquemault, Charles de Gontaut, Duc de Biron, Bertrand Guilladot, Jean de Poltrot, Pierre de La Broce, Jean Ch tel, Raoul Ii of Brienne, Count of Eu, Anne Du Bourg, Louis Dominique Bourguignon, Henri de Talleyrand-Prigord, Comte de Chalais, Pierre Barrire. Excerpt: Execution of Anne du Bourg Anne du Bourg (1521, Riom - 1559, Paris ) was a French magistrat, nephew of the chancellor Antoine du Bourg. Educated at the university of Orlans, he became professor and had tienne de la Botie as a student. He became counsellor of the Parliament of Paris in 1557. In 1559, during a mercurial (session of parliament), Du Bourg attacked the royal policy of repression against "those called heretics." He didn't make a secret of his Calvinist convictions. Henry II arrested him; after his death, the Guise monopolized power to the detriment of Franois II . After a trial, during which Du Bourg utilized all recourses of law, he was convicted as a heretic, to be hanged on the place de Grve and his body burned. The Palatine of the Rhine pleaded mercy to the king, to name him professor of law at Heidelberg, but in vain. He died on December 23, after having declared at the gallows "My friends, I am not here as a thief or a martyr, but for the evangelium ." A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at ...