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 account of one of these events, held in 1757 (-5[1])outside Place de Grève (“PLASS duh grev”), was written by Giacomo (15[1])Casanova after his escape (15[1])to Paris. Six generations of the (*) Sanson family, including Charles-Henri, oversaw these events in Paris. Women called tricoteuses would performatively knit (10[1])while spectating these events, which often 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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