Packet 3: Tossup 1

361 of these events in Hof and Nuremberg were recorded in the diary of Franz Schmidt, (15[1])the subject of a 2013 biography by Joel F. Harrington set in the “Turbulent Sixteenth Century.” An eyewitness (-5[1])account of one of these events, held in 1757 (-5[1])outside Place (-5[1])de Grève (“PLASS duh grev”), was written (-5[1])by Giacomo Casanova after his escape to Paris.. Six generations of the (15[1])(*) Sanson family, (10[1])including Charles-Henri, (10[2])oversaw these events in Paris. (10[3])Women called (10[2])tricoteuses (10[3])would performatively knit (10[2])while spectating (10[1])these (10[1])events, (10[1])which often (10[1])transported participants in tumbrel carts. A description of an extreme one of these events involving Robert-François Damiens opens Michel Foucault’s Discipline (10[1])and Punish. For 10 points, the frequency of what public events during the French Revolution (10[1])was facilitated by the invention of the guillotine? ■END■ (10[2])

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