Flagellation in France from a medical and historical standpoint.

Date:
1898
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Credit: Flagellation in France from a medical and historical standpoint. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I was much whipped, that is why I require you to do it and to make him understand the same'. {Lettres following the Journal Militaire de Henri IV, published by the Comte de Valori, 1821, p. 400). The Queen altered her mind as to her aversion to the humiliating punishment of the birch; we will here quote the testimony of Malherbe: Last Friday M. le Dauphin, playing at chess with La Luzerne, who is one of his boys of honour, the latter gave him check-mate; 31. le Daupliin was so much vexed, that he threw his chess-men at his partner's head. The Queen heard of it, and caused him to be whipped by M. de Souvray, and ordered him to teach the prince to be more gracious in future. {Lettre de Malherbe d Pelresc, of 11th January 1610, Paris 1822, p. 111). Some other examples are to be met with in the Memoires de VExtoile, collection Petitot, 1st series XLIX, 26. Domestic whipping is common to all countries, and flourishes in varying degrees according to the manners of the time. We think that Solomon's recommendation not to spare the rod was perfectly superfluous, simply because no parents in their right mind would hesitate for a moment to thrash their children, however big and strong, and whether boy or girl, if the castigation were to save them from moral ruin. We remember a case of a young woman of eighteen being corrected in this way by her widowed mother and her uncle. This brazen hussy was going fast to the bad, and laughed her mother to scorn when she spoke of a beating; but the mother, wisely and properly, called in the uncle one fine morning, and our young lass was very glad to cry for mercy and promise amendment. Parents, in fact, are sometimes obliged to delegate their powers to others, as the following interview will show.