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Robert-François Damiens

Robert-François Damiens

January 9, 1715

March 28, 1757

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Robert-François Damiens was a French domestic servant whose attempted assassination of King Louis XV in 1757 culminated in his public execution. He was the last person to be executed in France by dismemberment, the traditional form of death penalty reserved for regicides.

French domestic servant and attempted assassin

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