![]() ![]() At the first drum roll, the prisoners must rise and dress in silence, as the supervisor opens the cell doors.” After receiving a ration bread, “they form into work‐teams,” to spend the day in steady labor. “The prisoners’ day will begin at six in the morning. and then his body drawn and quartered by four horses and his limbs and body consumed by fire, reduced ashes.” (The penalty was carried out, but with such ineptitude as to increase the victim's agony.) The second, some 80 years later: the regimen for the inmates of a reformatory. ![]() burnt with sulphur, and on those places where the flesh will be torn away, pour molten lead, boiling oil. flesh will be torn from his breasts, arms, thighs and calves with red hot pincers, his right hand. The court sentenced him to be conveyed to the scaffold where “the The first: the execution of the would‐be regicide Damiens in a public square in 1757. THE texts for Michel Foucault's imaginative, luminating and yet troubling discourse are two penalties meted out in Paris less than 100 years apart. ![]()
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