Discipline and Punish

English version of "Surveiller et punir : naissance de la prison"

First sentence: On 2 March 1757 Damiens the regicide condemmed 'to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris', where he was to be 'taken and conveyed in a cart, wearing nothing but a a shirt, holding a torch of burning wax weighing two pounds'; then, 'in the said cart, to the place de Greve, where, on a scaffold that will be erected there, the flesh will be torn from his breasts, arms,

Year

1991

Language

English

Series

Penguin Social Sciences

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Editions

19

Reader rating

4.2 / 5 (13)

Pages

352

ISBN

9780140137224

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