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Roxalana "Roxana" Druse (c. 1847 – February 28, 1887), was the last woman hanged in the state of New York, and the first woman hanged in 40 years in Central New York. Her botched execution didn't kill her instantly, further motivating New York officials to replace the gallows with the electric chair in New York in 1890.

Druse murdered her husband, William Druse, in their home in Warren, New York, by shooting him and decapitating him with an axe. Her son and daughter, George and Mary Druse, and nephew, Frank Gates, assisted her in the murder. Druse later said that she murdered him because of domestic violence. She was sentenced to be hanged on October 6, 1885, and was hanged on February 28, 1887.
 

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ducon007 said:
"La clinique des cauchemars"
(The clinic of nightmares)
A novel by Jean Vergerie, illustrated by Sadie-Mazo (1937).

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About 50 years ago, in the Pigalle district of Paris, there was a bookshop selling erotic books, with a strong presence of BDSM works, as it was not yet known at the time. They were poorly bound photocopies of books like this one, with titles like the tragic hacienda, the barbarians of the Orinoco, the torments of the Inquisition or the pleasures of Tiberius. They came from the ‘private’ library of the French actor Michel Simon, a great erotomaniac, after his death. Under the guise of edifying historical practices, the aim was of course to describe scenes in which young white women were atrociously tortured, with the support of more or less suggestive drawings like these ones.
I often went to this bookshop, where I managed to leaf through most of the books for hours on end, the shop assistants were friendly and sometimes I could afford to buy one.
I came out each time with a gooey underwear
Almost 25 years ago, I was encouraged by a French-speaking author to write, and I did so in reference to those vintage authors, with their old-fashioned writing, but above all with a much more precise and lengthy description of the torments, I wanted to put today's young reader in a film. So most of my writing is set in a historical context, as if time had stood still for us fans of this kind of fantasy.


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gerembeau said:
About 50 years ago, in the Pigalle district of Paris, there was a bookshop selling erotic books, with a strong presence of BDSM works, as it was not yet known at the time. They were poorly bound photocopies of books like this one, with titles like the tragic hacienda, the barbarians of the Orinoco, the torments of the Inquisition or the pleasures of Tiberius. They came from the ‘private’ library of the French actor Michel Simon, a great erotomaniac, after his death. Under the guise of edifying historical practices, the aim was of course to describe scenes in which young white women were atrociously tortured, with the support of more or less suggestive drawings like these ones.
I often went to this bookshop, where I managed to leaf through most of the books for hours on end, the shop assistants were friendly and sometimes I could afford to buy one.
I came out each time with a gooey underwear
Almost 25 years ago, I was encouraged by a French-speaking author to write, and I did so in reference to those vintage authors, with their old-fashioned writing, but above all with a much more precise and lengthy description of the torments, I wanted to put today's young reader in a film. So most of my writing is set in a historical context, as if time had stood still for us fans of this kind of fantasy.


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Just to point out that "Pierre Dumarchey" is the birth name of Pierre Mac Orlan, who wrote a few erotic/BDSM books in his youth.
 
gerembeau said:
About 50 years ago, in the Pigalle district of Paris, there was a bookshop selling erotic books, with a strong presence of BDSM works, as it was not yet known at the time. They were poorly bound photocopies of books like this one, with titles like the tragic hacienda, the barbarians of the Orinoco, the torments of the Inquisition or the pleasures of Tiberius. They came from the ‘private’ library of the French actor Michel Simon, a great erotomaniac, after his death. Under the guise of edifying historical practices, the aim was of course to describe scenes in which young white women were atrociously tortured, with the support of more or less suggestive drawings like these ones.
I often went to this bookshop, where I managed to leaf through most of the books for hours on end, the shop assistants were friendly and sometimes I could afford to buy one.
I came out each time with a gooey underwear
Almost 25 years ago, I was encouraged by a French-speaking author to write, and I did so in reference to those vintage authors, with their old-fashioned writing, but above all with a much more precise and lengthy description of the torments, I wanted to put today's young reader in a film. So most of my writing is set in a historical context, as if time had stood still for us fans of this kind of fantasy.


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Very interesting memories. And those stories in which you tried to imitate old French authors, have they been published anywhere?
 
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Pic #1 is haunting. Were the women hanged partisans or their only crime was living where partisans operated from?

As for Pic #2, The woman is learning the troubles of fornicating without having the blessing of marriage.
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"She must learn the pains of spreading her legs in lust" the archbisjop declares. "Once she confesses she will be burned at the stake so all can see what happens to sinners..."
 
thehangingtree said:
Pic #1 is haunting. Were the women hanged partisans or their only crime was living where partisans operated from?
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It's a bit hard to make out, but if you enlarge the picture, the soldiers in the background are wearing pickelhauben. O don't know the pictures origin, but it maybe WWI anti-German propaganda. The hanged women are probably Belgian.
It's ironic that the German Army of WWII did the things the Army of WWI had been falsely accused of doing.
 
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