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...
(Excerpt) Read more at executedtoday.com ...
... and then the man realized that the burning would never stop because he, preferring his sin, had not received Christ.
“Grooming” in 5he 1600’s . . .
Justice well served.
“French Aristocrat Story Hour”
Sounds like a good reason to execute him.
“Justice well served.”
I agree.
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.
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