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Robert-François Damiens was a French domestic servant whose attempted assassination of King Louis XV in 1757 culminated in his public execution. He was the last person to be executed in France by dismemberment, the traditional form of death penalty reserved for regicides. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. January 1715 – 28. March 1757
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Robert-François Damiens Quotes

“The day will be hard.”

Robert-François Damiens

Attributed to Damiens before his execution

“O death, why art thou so long in coming?”

Robert-François Damiens

Attributed last words
Source: Frederic Rowland (1900). The Last Words (Real and Traditional) of Distinguished Men and Women. Troy, New York: C. A. Brewster & Co.

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