Chapter
The Public's Obsession with Executions in Paris
3:40:35 - 3:48:56 (08:21)
The podcast explores the public's fascination with executions during the 18th and 19th centuries in Paris, despite some individuals beginning to question the morality of the practice.
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With the change in sensibilities among certain classes during the period of public executions, the audience attending them started to see themselves and became uncomfortable with what they saw.
3:40:35 - 3:43:17 (02:42)
Summary
With the change in sensibilities among certain classes during the period of public executions, the audience attending them started to see themselves and became uncomfortable with what they saw. Primary sources, including a dramatized account from someone who was at the forefront of these new sensibilities, illustrate this change in attitudes towards public executions.
ChapterThe Public's Obsession with Executions in Paris
EpisodeShow 61 - (Blitz) Painfotainment
PodcastDan Carlin's Hardcore History
The image of women watching an execution clashes with the ideal of womanhood as a compassionate and nurturing state.
3:43:17 - 3:45:13 (01:55)
Summary
The image of women watching an execution clashes with the ideal of womanhood as a compassionate and nurturing state. This contradiction highlights the assumptions about human nature during that era.
ChapterThe Public's Obsession with Executions in Paris
EpisodeShow 61 - (Blitz) Painfotainment
PodcastDan Carlin's Hardcore History
Madame Tiquette was a woman who was executed and burned in Paris, causing an obsession for the city's high society, as well as comparisons to a dramatic performance by De Neuillère.
3:45:14 - 3:48:56 (03:42)
Summary
Madame Tiquette was a woman who was executed and burned in Paris, causing an obsession for the city's high society, as well as comparisons to a dramatic performance by De Neuillère.