Note 1586 — Chapter VI · REAPPEARANCE OF TORTURE.
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He pleaded his rank as baron as an exemption from the torture, but was overruled. Dumoulin, however, admits that persons of noble blood are not to be as readily exposed to it as those of lower station.—Desmaze, Les Pénalités Anciennes, d’après des Textes inédits, p. 39 (Paris, 1866).