Show PRINTING ONCE IN DISFAVOR followers of 6 tho art have been known to expiate their crimes on the gallows on the of july 1560 martin lhomme one of two who nere ere hanged in the place flaubert by the decree of the ba parliament suffered because he ha had published a writing entitled Ep epistle Istre au tagre de la france A letter directed against the tiger of france a satire directed against the cardinal of lorraine Lorr alne then all powerful which had probably been imprinted at basle in switzerland or strasburg germany the culprit according to the historian de thou was a poor little bookseller a native of rouen while he was waiting at the gibbet says charles winslow hall in the national magazine one of his fellow countrymen coming into paris on business saw him on his way and recognized him then says regnier de la planche not knowing why he was condemned to death he be alighted from his horse at a neighboring hostelry and seeing the people very angry against the unfortunate man cried to them eh what my friends Is it not enough that he be dies leave him to the executioner would you like to torment him more than ban his sentence demands they considered the normans pity misplaced he was forthwith arrested judged and hanged tour four days later without any form ot of process in the same fatal place maubert |