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1661: Jacques Chausson, “Great Gods, where is your justice?”
ExecutedToday.com ^ | December 29, 2019 | Headsman

Posted on 12/29/2022 7:19:25 AM PST by CheshireTheCat

On this date in 1661, the French customs officer and writer Jacques Chausson (English Wikipedia entry | French) was burned at Paris’s Place de Greve for sodomy.

Chausson with another man, Jacques Paulmier, forced themselves upon a handsome 17-year-old aristocratic youth, “and [Chausson] while embracing him [the victim] undid the button of his pants at the same time, and then Paulmier began knowing him carnally, and committing with him the crime of sodomy. Having felt this, he began to shout and struggle, and then an old woman, working that day at the home of Mr. Petit, merchant and head of the house, came running.”

As we’ve noted before in these pages, Chausson entered French letters as the subject of verse by Claude le Petit, himself later executed, disdaining the hypocrisy of executing for a diversion widely practiced among the elites...

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1 posted on 12/29/2022 7:19:25 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
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To: CheshireTheCat
Back when they really knew how to punish crime. No rainbow flag for you!

2 posted on 12/29/2022 7:22:43 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

... and then the man realized that the burning would never stop because he, preferring his sin, had not received Christ.


3 posted on 12/29/2022 7:23:03 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: CheshireTheCat

“Grooming” in 5he 1600’s . . .


4 posted on 12/29/2022 7:28:14 AM PST by MCSETots
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To: CheshireTheCat

Justice well served.


5 posted on 12/29/2022 7:59:14 AM PST by Theophilus (It's fake and defective)
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To: MCSETots

“French Aristocrat Story Hour”


6 posted on 12/29/2022 8:01:21 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: CheshireTheCat
So he and another man raped a minor.

Sounds like a good reason to execute him.

7 posted on 12/29/2022 8:50:34 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (The nation of france was named after a hedgehog... The hedgehog's name was Kevin... Don't ask)
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To: Theophilus

“Justice well served.”

I agree.


8 posted on 12/29/2022 8:52:43 AM PST by EastTexasTraveler
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To: CheshireTheCat

My wife and I were conversing a few days ago on how quickly, in these United States, the penalty for sodomy went from felony worthy of death to loving acceptance by a great many.

While in the eyes of God nothing has changed from the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Abomination still applies along with all the other abominations in the lexicon of Deity. Read up and stop abominating whatever it is. We are living the results of abominating.


9 posted on 12/29/2022 9:29:54 AM PST by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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