Public torture and execution was among the most popular spectacles of eighteenth-century France.
Evidence
Another problem was posed by the French word āsuppliceā, which heads the first part of the book. For the sake of brevity I have entitled this first part āTortureā, but no single English word will cover the full range of the French. Here āsuppliceā refers specifically to the public torture and execution of criminals that provided one of the most popular spectacles of eighteenth-century France. By extension the word can also refer to any prolonged torture, mental as well as physical. ā Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of theā¦, 15
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Public torture was spectacle designed to display sovereign power publicly ā Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of theā¦, 83
Related
- Public torture was spectacle designed to display sovereign power publicly (similarity 0.85)
- Execution rituals were explicitly military displays of armed justice. (similarity 0.82)
- Execution sites and torments mirrored the crimeās form and setting (similarity 0.81)
- Routinized supplementary torture accompanied nearly all serious penalties (similarity 0.80)
- Public executions taught the people that violence could be met with violence (similarity 0.80)
- Judicial torture was a quantified technique, not lawless rage (similarity 0.80)
- Torture was a genuine contest in which a resisting suspect could legally win (similarity 0.79)
- Public execution functions as a political ritual of power, not mere justice. (similarity 0.78)
- Torture persisted because it revealed truth and displayed power (similarity 0.78)
- Capital punishment remains a spectacle that must be actively forbidden and hidden (similarity 0.78)
- The sovereign executed regicides with symbolic maximal torture (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Public torture was spectacle designed to display sovereign power publicly
#expands(0.85) ā Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of theā¦, 83