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 (15[1])Sixteenth Century.” An eyewitness 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 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■

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