Flagellation in France from a medical and historical standpoint.

Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Flagellation in France from a medical and historical standpoint. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ''Ah! you won't, won't you, bad Christian! We shall see! And brother Eusebius seized Chariot beneath his arm and carried him off like a bundle. Arrived on the first floor, he opened the door of the sitting-room, and threw his burden on the floor. The boy trembled, not recognizing this room into which he had never yet come and where a subdued light filtering through the venetian-blinds barely made it possible to distinguish the colour of the furniture. In the dread of an unknown punishment, his hair stood on end, his teeth chattered, and he was afraid to stir. The man locked the door, admitted a little light into the room and sat down on an easy-chair. Take off your trowsers! Chariot obeyed, quite pale, and feeling his legs give way beneath him. Eusebius laid hold of him again. The cheeks of the scoundrel trembled, his breath came hissing and his eyes glistened with a strange light. Slowly he passed his hands over the naked flesh of the boy, whose skin, as he still more violently trembled became mottled blue with goose-flesh; whereat, the man, disappointed as it were, felt his rage rise again. Suddenly, he seized his victim by the neck, shoved him down on his knees before him, violently holding his head between his knees; then, taking a martinet from his pocket, he began furiously to flog that white skin which maddened him, hitting hardei- and harder, and accompanying each blow with the broken exclamations of a paviour, never ceasing to contemplate the image of his horrible work reflected in the big looking- glass of the room. At the first blows. Chariot had howled with pain, but