PROTESTANTISM. LA ROCHELLE (Charente-Maritime) July 21, 1756 - Lot 181

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PROTESTANTISM. LA ROCHELLE (Charente-Maritime) July 21, 1756 - Lot 181
PROTESTANTISM. LA ROCHELLE (Charente-Maritime) July 21, 1756. Trial for blasphemy against the Catholic religion. "Final judgment. Charles Amable Honoré BARENTIN, chevalier, seigneur d'Hardivilliers-les-Belles-Ruries, Intendant en la Généralité de la Rochelle. Between the Procureur du Roi de la Commission, plaintiff and accuser; Against François TOUZINEAU, Thomas FAURE, Guillaume RAMIGEAU and Marie ROGÉ, dite Denise, religionnaires, defendants and accused. Let us declare "François TOUZINEAU duly convinced of having apostasized the Catholic and Roman Religion, in which he was born... of having attended several Religious Assemblies held at night, and of having preached there; as well as of having written two booklets containing several Blasphemies and bad speeches in the Religious Assemblies where he preached. In reparation for this, we have condemned him to pay the honorable fine bareheaded and in his shirt, with a rope around his collar, holding in his hands a torch of burning wax weighing two pounds, in front of the main gate of Saint Barthélémi... from there to the Place Royale of this City, where the two booklets will be burned... by the Executor of High Justice, and the said TOUZINEAU hanged and strangled to death on a gallows to be erected for this purpose, where his dead body will remain for twenty-four hours, and will then be carried to the pitchforks, to remain there until perfect consumption... We have declared his property confiscated in favor of the Lord King..." follows the other trials: They are beaten with rods, scourged with hot iron, banished, saddled, confined to a convent, hanged, or scourged with hot iron and the letters G.A.L. (Galères) et conduits à la chaîne ... Printed in LA ROCHELLE, chez P. Mesnier, Imprimeur du Roi, rue du Temple, 16 pages in-4°.
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