Round 3: Tossup 1

361 of these events in Hof and Nuremberg were recorded in the diary of Franz Schmidt, 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 outside Place de Grève (“PLASS duh grev”), was written by Giacomo Casanova after his escape to Paris.. Six generations of the (*) Sanson family, including Charles-Henri, oversaw these events in Paris. Women called tricoteuses (10[1])would performatively knit while spectating 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 and Punish. For 10 points, the frequency of what public events during the French Revolution was facilitated by the invention of the guillotine? ■END■ (10[1])

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