Donnerstag, Juli 09, 2009
Rangelei bei der Taufe
The women of Coutances fought with each other over whose babies should be baptized first and the priest in question resolved the problem by a personal estimate of which ones were likely to be dead before he reached the end of the queue; he misjudged in two cases but he sprinkled water notwithstanding on their little corpses.
Quelle: Huften, Olwen: "Women in Revolution 1789-1796", Past and Present, 53/1971, S. 90-108.
Labels: Frankreich, Geschichte
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