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French nuns executed by guillotine during the French Revolution (8 P) Pages in category "Executed French women" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total.
Marie-Louise Giraud (17 November 1903 – 30 July 1943) was one of the last women to be executed in France. Giraud was convicted in Vichy France and was guillotined for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area on 30 July 1943. Her story was dramatized in the 1988 film Story of Women directed by Claude Chabrol.
While Djandoubi was the last person executed in France, he was not the last condemned. [8] Fifteen defendants were sentenced to die before capital punishment was abolished in France on 9 October 1981 following the election of François Mitterrand, and those previously sentenced had their sentences commuted. [9]
People executed by the French Fifth Republic (8 P) People executed by the Provisional Government of the French Republic (1 C, 1 P) People executed during the French Revolution (1 C, 12 P)
The Martyrs of Compiègne were the 16 members of the Carmel of Compiègne, France: 11 Discalced Carmelite nuns, three lay sisters, and two externs (or tertiaries).They were executed by the guillotine towards the end of the Reign of Terror, at what is now the Place de la Nation in Paris on 17 July 1794, and are venerated as beatified martyrs of the Catholic Church.
murder of French civilians by German troops (SS Das Reich) Graignes massacre: 11 June 1944: Graignes, Manche: 61 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division: 17 American POWs were stabbed, shot to death and 44 French civilians were executed by German troops by shooting. Dun-les-Places massacre: 28 June 1944: Dun-les-Places: 27 German security forces
Gutwirth, Madelyn (1992), The Twilight of the Goddesses; Women and Representation in the French Revolutionary Era, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Kindleberger, Elizabeth R (1994), "Charlotte Corday in Text and Image: A Case Study in the French Revolution and Women's History", French Historical Studies, vol. 18, pp. 969–99.
Capital punishment in France (French: peine de mort en France) is banned by Article 66-1 of the Constitution of the French Republic, voted as a constitutional amendment by the Congress of the French Parliament on 19 February 2007 and simply stating "No one can be sentenced to the death penalty" (French: Nul ne peut être condamné à la peine de mort).