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Sex, Savagery, and Slavery in the Shaping of the French Body Politic
Elizabeth Colwill
In , two years after the French Revolution had shattered the remnants of the absolutist state, a slave revolution exploded in Saint-Domingue, the jewel of the French empire in the Caribbean.[1] In February the French Convention ceded to necessity and abolished
I am grateful to participants in the New York Area French History Seminar and the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies/Clark Library conference "Constructing the Body in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" for stimulating discussions of the issues raised here. Special thanks to Sara Melzer, Kathryn Norberg, Bryant T. Ragan, Stephanie McCurry, Laura Mason, and Margaret Waller for their invaluable written comments on an earlier draft of this essay.
[1] My discussion of the revolution in Saint-Domingue draws on a rich historiographical tradition. I am especially endebted in what follows to Carolyn Fick,
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Contested Metaphors: Imagining the Body Politic in Revolutionary France.
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éric Desmons
Law and History Review,
image of the civitas, which was both a creation of human agents (Hobbes' "Artificial man") and also something founded in nature. Changes of State is a remarkable book in a number of ways. It offers what is, in effect, a wholly new understanding of the emergence of the modern concept of the state, and of the seemingly insuperable question of state sovereignty. By focusing, however, on the relationship of individual human actors to both the human and the nonhuman world-what she calls "the uneasy frontier between nature and the city"-Brett has been drawn into the wider question of how the different civitates related, both politically and legally, to one another. This is not merely to say that in this period the natural
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List of people who were beheaded
The following is a list of people who were beheaded, arranged alphabetically by country or region and with date of decapitation. Special sections on "Religious figures" and "Fictional characters" are also appended.
These individuals lost their heads intentionally (as a form of execution or posthumously). A list of people who were decapitated accidentally, including animal-related deaths, can be found at List of people who were decapitated.
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[edit]- Didier Wangay () - Former acting Mayor of Bambari; Wagner and FACA arrested Wangay and his family in Gallougou on 15 månad and beheaded him, his son, wife, niece, and nephew. Afterwards, their heads were displayed in Bambari as trophies.[12]
- Josué Béfio () - Anti-balaka leader in Ouham-Fafa; Béfio, along with his bodyguard, were beheaded at a military base in Bouca.[13]