Husband-Killer, Christian Heroine, Victim: The Execution of Madame Tiquet, 1699
The case of Angélique-Nicole Carlier Tiquet, convicted of organizing a plot to assassinate her husband in 1699, prompts questions about histories of torture and public execution over the last several centuries. During the two-month trial that followed the assassination attempt against her husband, o...
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| description | The case of Angélique-Nicole Carlier Tiquet, convicted of organizing a plot to assassinate her husband in 1699, prompts questions about histories of torture and public execution over the last several centuries. During the two-month trial that followed the assassination attempt against her husband, official inquiry and public opinion coalesced around the idea that Madame Tiquet was guilty. At least some observers came to believe that her crime represented a threat to husbands and paternal authority more generally throughout the kingdom. In the wake of her torture and public execution, which she endured so gracefully that many observers found themselves lamenting her death, male Catholic polemicists argued in print about the meanings of her demise, while one female Protestant writer, Anne Marguerite Petit du Noyer, asserted her innocence. Several years later, in the 1702 edition of his Dictionnaire historique et critique, Pierre Bayle cited the case in the context of a broader secular reflection on marital relations in morally corrupt societies. The affair that prompted these texts is fascinating precisely because it resists insertion into misleading histories of progress and civility, or ever-expanding statist surveillance of citizens. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/609182022-09-27T15:28:38Z Husband-Killer, Christian Heroine, Victim: The Execution of Madame Tiquet, 1699 Ravel, Jeffrey Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Ravel, Jeffrey S. Ravel, Jeffrey S. The case of Angélique-Nicole Carlier Tiquet, convicted of organizing a plot to assassinate her husband in 1699, prompts questions about histories of torture and public execution over the last several centuries. During the two-month trial that followed the assassination attempt against her husband, official inquiry and public opinion coalesced around the idea that Madame Tiquet was guilty. At least some observers came to believe that her crime represented a threat to husbands and paternal authority more generally throughout the kingdom. In the wake of her torture and public execution, which she endured so gracefully that many observers found themselves lamenting her death, male Catholic polemicists argued in print about the meanings of her demise, while one female Protestant writer, Anne Marguerite Petit du Noyer, asserted her innocence. Several years later, in the 1702 edition of his Dictionnaire historique et critique, Pierre Bayle cited the case in the context of a broader secular reflection on marital relations in morally corrupt societies. The affair that prompted these texts is fascinating precisely because it resists insertion into misleading histories of progress and civility, or ever-expanding statist surveillance of citizens. 2011-02-11T13:58:07Z 2011-02-11T13:58:07Z 2010-12 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0265-1068 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/60918 Ravel, J. “Husband-Killer, Christian Heroine, Victim: The Execution of Madame Tiquet, 1699.” Seventeenth-Century French Studies Volume 32, Number 2(2010): 120-136. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8092-5008 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/026510610X12857561930714 Seventeenth-Century French Studies Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Maney Publishing Prof. Ravel |
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