Curious cases of flagellation in France [electronic resource] : considered from a legal, medical and historical standpoint with reference to analogous cases in England, Germany, Italy, America, Australia and the Soudan . o objection, replied the Cardinal, but please wait first of all until the skin of my bottom is healed. 8 Some few days after the performance of the ballet ofthe Flagellants at Saint-Cloud, the actress Fillon came tothe Palais-Royal. The Regent asked her what the girls,(all of them prostitutes), she had sent blindfolded to Saint-Cloud had thought of the entertainment, and wheth
Curious cases of flagellation in France [electronic resource] : considered from a legal, medical and historical standpoint with reference to analogous cases in England, Germany, Italy, America, Australia and the Soudan . o objection, replied the Cardinal, but please wait first of all until the skin of my bottom is healed. 8 Some few days after the performance of the ballet ofthe Flagellants at Saint-Cloud, the actress Fillon came tothe Palais-Royal. The Regent asked her what the girls,(all of them prostitutes), she had sent blindfolded to Saint-Cloud had thought of the entertainment, and whether theyhad not recognized the place where they were. No, YourHighness, answered the courtesan, they could not guesswhere they were, but they all of them thought that onlyYour Royal Highness and Cardinal Dubois were capable ofimagining such a sort of entertainment. It is here shown that licentious flagellation occupied acertain place in the usual pleasures of this dissolute prince,whose wild orgies had used up to such an extent that hewas obliged continually to seek for enjoyments ever andever more exciting: flagellation was to him an agreablediversion and served to revive the dormant flames of hiserotic OUR DUTY IS NOW TO DEAL WITH THEFLAGELLATIONS OF RELIGION. his subject is so extensive and has been so ablyhandled that no apology is needed for passing itover very rapidly. Few people would suspect Ogilvies* Imperial English Dictionary9 to be any authority onthis head, and yet such is the fact. Turning up the word flagellation0 in the last edition of that useful work, wefind mention made of a fanatical sect founded in 1260, who maintained that flagellation was of equalvirtue with baptism and the sacrament. They walked inprocession with shoulders bare, and whipped themselvestill the blood ran down their bodies, to obtain the mercyof God and appease his wrath against the vices of the age. We have no room here for theological discussions. Thedoors of thirty th
Size: 3448px × 725px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookidb20441939, bookyear1901
