Le Triomphe de Judith by Nicolas Prévost (1604-1670) France French ( the beheading of Holofernes by Judith is given in the deuterocanonical Book of Judith )
Judith meets and bowls over the enemy general Holofernes. He plans to seduce her, but she turns the tables on waits until he is drunk and sleeping, then she kills him by hacking off his head as he lies in a drunken stupor.
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