Quartering by horses
Execution of Poltrot de Méré for the murder of François
de Guise
(1563)
This method of execution was reserved for people who had commited a murder
or attempted murder upon the person of the king or another nobleman . Throughout
the history, quartering doesn't seem to have occured very often,
each excution has been related in every scary detail by the chroniclers
of that period .
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