Robert-François Damiens (French pronunciation: [ʁɔbɛʁ fʁɑ̃swa damjɛ̃]; surname also recorded as Damier, [damje]; 9 January 1715 – 28 March 1757) was a...

François Georges Henri Marie Ghislain Joseph Damiens (French: [damjɛ̃]; born 17 January 1973) is a Belgian actor. He has appeared in more than fifty films...

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault, notably in reference to Robert-François Damiens who was condemned to make the amende honorable before the main...

years. By his own hand he executed nearly 3,000 people, including Robert-François Damiens, who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV. Sanson would later...

Ravaillac, attempted to assassinate Sigismund III of Poland in 1620. Robert-François Damiens, who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV of France in 1757....

leader, born in Arras Carolus Clusius (1526–1609), early botanist Robert-François Damiens (1715–1757), failed regicide, born in La Thieuloye Artesian well...

The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt...

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Empire. After the attempted assassination of King Louis XV by Robert-François Damiens, he was sent to Artois, to investigate and reconstruct the route...

me safe up; and for my coming down, let me shift for myself." Robert-François Damiens, a French man who attempted to assassinate King Louis XV, was sentenced...

its loyalty to the King by sentencing Damiens to the most severe possible penalty. On 28–29 March 1757 Damiens was executed on the Place de Grève in Paris...

Man (1791), in which Paine likens Foullon's ordeal to that of Robert-François Damiens, executed in 1757 following an attempted regicide, in order to...

dismemberment. Damiens' joints would not break; after some hours, representatives of the Parlement ordered the executioner and his aides to cut Damiens' joints...

was the case with the executions of François Ravaillac in 1610, Michał Piekarski in 1620, and Robert-François Damiens in 1757. Ravaillac's extended torture...

two forms of penalty: the violent and chaotic public torture of Robert-François Damiens, who was convicted of attempted regicide in the mid-18th century...

grève, including the gruesome deaths of the assassins François Ravaillac and Robert-François Damiens, as well as the bandit-rebel Guy Éder de La Fontenelle...

Beheading by axe. It is said that it took three blows to behead him. Robert-François Damiens (1757) – Dismemberment by horses. Limbs could not be torn off and...

Casanova's time in prison, and a time after his release where he sees Robert-François Damiens tortured, and tries to seduce Anne Roman-Coupier. This episode...

(disambiguation) Robert-François Damiens (1715-1757), Frenchman who unsuccessfully attempted the assassination of Louis XV of France Saint Damien (disambiguation)...

Paris, where he arrived on the same day (5 January 1757) that Robert-François Damiens made an attempt on the life of Louis XV. (Casanova would later...

penalty was already declared illegal on 9 October 1981 when President François Mitterrand signed a law prohibiting the judicial system from using it and...

evidence and seized items, including case documents like that against Robert-François Damiens for his assassination attempt of King Louis XV of France. AE VI:...

Orleans (from 1 September) Persian embassy to Louis XIV 9 January – Robert-François Damiens, domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination of...

Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On—" (serialized in 1940, published in the 1953 compilation Revolt in 2100) Pär Lagerkvist, The Dwarf (1944) Robert...

breech loading firearm is made for Philip V of Spain. January 9 – Robert-François Damiens, French domestic servant, executed for the attempted assassination...

The British Army, under the command of Robert Clive, captures Calcutta, India. January 5 – Robert-François Damiens makes an unsuccessful assassination attempt...

(April 20) at the place de Grève in Paris, where the “regicide” Robert-François Damiens had been savagely executed in 1757, and the man who escaped to...

death; and "The Execution of Damiens", a story about the execution of the 18th-century French criminal Robert-François Damiens that achieved some notoriety...

the age of 99 "O death, why art thou so long in coming?": 41  — Robert-François Damiens, French domestic servant, attempted assassin of Louis XV (28 March...

of Brinvilliers, a famous poisoner; the bandit Cartouche; and Robert-François Damiens, a Palace servant who tried to kill Louis XV. Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy...