Early Modern Death @EarlyModDeath
Interested in all things deathly between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Hoping to get an academic network or something going... Joined April 2014-
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"I see that you have made 3 spelling mistakes." Last words of Marquis de Favras after reading his death sentence before being hanged (1790).
21 January 1793: Louis Xvi was executed at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. #otd #history #FrenchRevolution
In 1778, Marie Antoinette was almost crushed to death by an excited crowd of spectators who had come to watch her give birth.
-'Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder fixement.' -'Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.' La Rochefoucauld
Pierre Bayle est mort. Vive la République des Lettres! wp.me/p3kzGG-pt
'On ne meurt qu'une fois, et c'est pour si longtemps!'. 'You only die once, and it's for such a long time!' #Molière, Dépit amoureux (1656)
The C17th Puritan William Twisse, who was regularly visited by a dead schoolfriend's ghost while on the toilet. Probably explains the face.
"La liberté ou la mort" de Biard nous expose les morts violentes des députés et représentants du peuple pendant la Révolution
'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado'.Cervantes,d.1616
Life expectancy in 1662 London (John Graunt's stats): Age % survival rate 0 100 6 74 16 40 26 25 36 16 46 10 56 6 66 3 76 1
'All this buttoning and unbuttoning' (anonymous suicide note, 18th century) (Oh, and Merry Christmas)
More on the matter of death / how the dead matter. @EarlyModDeath
More on the matter of death / how the dead matter. @EarlyModDeath
Died #OTD 13Jul1793 Jean-Paul Marat, Man of #Enlightenment and #FrenchRevolution. Here's His Death Mask.
1June1593: Deptford, inquest into death of Christopher Marlowe #otd @LondonHistorian @TraceLarkhall @rhetorician
A second time I kill my husband dead, When second husband kisses me in bed. #ShakespeareSunday
Got my new bedside reading... #Shakespeare400
#Shakespeare imagines a last-minute tragic rewrite for his gay love story 'Titus and Ronicus'.

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