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    The Gibbet of Montfaucon (French: Gibet de Montfaucon) was the main gallows and gibbet of the Kings of France until the time of Louis XIII of France....
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    Gibbeting (redirect from Gibet)
    depicting gibbeting include: Known as "Le Gibet", the second movement of composer Maurice Ravel's piano suite Gaspard de la nuit is based on the poems of Aloysius...
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    were intended to punish insiders. Gibbet of Montfaucon Plourin (Finistère) Château de Kerjean (Finistère) Gibet of Creuë The Mount of Forks in Vitry-en-Perthois...
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    faith. Others were decapitated or hanged. Beginning in about 1314, a large gibet was built on a hill outside of Paris, near the modern Parc des Buttes Chaumont...
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