Mark Kurlansky Quotes

A 1670 Revision Of The Criminal Code Found Yet Another Use For Salt In France. To Enforce The Law Against Suicide, It Was Ordered That The Bodies Of People Who Took Their Own Lives Be Salted, Brought Before A Judge, And Sentenced To Public Display. Nor Could The Accused Escape Their Day In Court By Dying In The Often Miserable Conditions Of The Prisons. They Too Would Be Salted And Put On Trial. Breton Historians Have Discovered That In 1784 In The Town Of Cornouaille, Maurice LeCorre Had Died In Prison And Was Ordered Salted For Trial. But Due To Some Bureaucratic Error, The Corpse Did Not Get A Trial Date And Was Found By A Prison Guard More Than Seven Years Later, Not Only Salted But Fermented In Beer, At Which Point It Was Buried Without Trial.

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