duplas

Updated: May 16, 2025

This seems to have been the fashion in France also, for in 1331 a woman named Duplas was scourged and buried alive at Abbeville, and in 1460 Perotte Mauger, a receiver of stolen goods, was inhumed by order of the Provost of Paris in front of the public gibbet.

Ambrose Bierce - The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays: 1909