Flagellation in France from a medical and historical standpoint.

Date:
1898
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    to better feelings and I assist her to come to true re- pentance. When the fustigation has been administered under good conditions, according to rule and conscien- tiously, it is seldom that the young girl rebels against the punishment; she is generally humiliated, on the contrary, and quite ready to make it up with me. It very rarely occurs that after having received a sound correction a girl repels me when I say to her ' let us kiss and make friends.' Afterwards, I give her time to recover from her emotions and advise her to go back to her room without saying a word to any one. It is very rare indeed, added Mrs. Walter with pride, for any of my pupils to fall back again into their faults after a good whipping; at any rate, I have never had to repeat the dose more than twice. Mrs. Walter was silent for a moment, and then observed: If you are inclined to confide your niece to my care?.. She is too big, replied the visitor; ''she is fifteen years old. Too big ! exclaimed Mrs. Walters, but I have pupils twenty years old; I have birched them every one, and they are only all the better for it! IRevengeful jFlaoellatlOnS* Instances of these in French history are perhaps more numerous and certainly more piquant. In the Causes Celebres'' * there is a * Causes celebres et interessantes, avec les jiigements qui les ont decidees, recueillies par Gayst de Pitaval. Amst. et Liege, 1755. Continuees par De la Ville. 26 vol. in 12mo. Editions de Paris. 1738—1743 en 20 vol. et d'Amsterdam en 22 vol. Curieuse publication, contenant: Histoire de la Marquise de Brin- villiers, celebre empoisonneuse—H^e d'Urbain Grandier, condamne comme auteur de la possession des religieuses de Loudun—La belle