Decapitation of Guillaume de Pommiers and his confessor, John Coulon, at Bordeaux in 1377 under orders from Sir Thomas Felton, English seneschal of the city. Illustration after "Froissart's Chronicles". "Moeurs, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance", by Paul Lacroix. Paris, 1878.

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