06-04-2019, 07:28 PM
This lady had her head chopped off in the pouring rain. Some dude grabbed her head out of the basket and slapped her face directly after it was severed. Those in the crowd said her face blushed and she took on an unmistakable look of indignation.
" After Corday's decapitation, a man named Legros lifted her head from the basket and slapped it on the cheek. Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner, indignantly rejected published reports that Legros was one of his assistants. Sanson stated in his diary that Legros was in fact a carpenter who had been hired to make repairs to the guillotine.[24]Witnesses report an expression of "unequivocal indignation" on her face when her cheek was slapped. The oft-repeated anecdote has served to suggest that victims of the guillotine may in fact retain consciousness for a short while, including by Albert Camusin his Reflections on the Guillotine.("Charlotte Corday's severed head blushed, it is said, under the executioner's slap.").[25]
This offense against a woman executed moments before was considered unacceptable and Legros was imprisoned for three months because of his outburst.[26]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Corday
" After Corday's decapitation, a man named Legros lifted her head from the basket and slapped it on the cheek. Charles-Henri Sanson, the executioner, indignantly rejected published reports that Legros was one of his assistants. Sanson stated in his diary that Legros was in fact a carpenter who had been hired to make repairs to the guillotine.[24]Witnesses report an expression of "unequivocal indignation" on her face when her cheek was slapped. The oft-repeated anecdote has served to suggest that victims of the guillotine may in fact retain consciousness for a short while, including by Albert Camusin his Reflections on the Guillotine.("Charlotte Corday's severed head blushed, it is said, under the executioner's slap.").[25]
This offense against a woman executed moments before was considered unacceptable and Legros was imprisoned for three months because of his outburst.[26]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Corday