Capital punishment in France
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Capital punishment in 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
Robert-François Damiens being dismembered for his attempted murder on Louis XV.
Robespierre and associates executed 1794
Public execution by guillotine in Lons-le-Saunier, 1897
Victor Schœlcher
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Victor Schœlcher was a French abolitionist, writer, politician and journalist, best known for his leading role in the abolition of slavery in France in 1848, during the Second Republic.
Portrait by Henri Decaisne, 1832
Schœlcher in 1848, by Louis Stanislas Marin-Lavigne
Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848 by François-Auguste Biard
Photograph of Schœlcher by Étienne Carjat, between 1876–1884