![]() ![]() fear of supernatural at night what were executions used for? a moral spectacle and lesson what was france like at this time in comparison to the rest of europe? the richest and most populous country in all of europe what were the people in france like at the time? -few could read and write judge used evidence to determine guilt/innocence or defendant was put to question under torture how were defendants tortured in court? their limbs were stretched with a plank and they were essentially waterboarded what was the ultimate proof of guilt in court? confession what was the chatelet used for? court, a prison, document storage how was paris protected from invasion? ramparts and a large wall surrounding it what was paris like at night? -beggars/pimps/prostitutes/thieves/grifters roamed ![]() ![]() What did the prisoners do before their execution? confession why was the chatelet originally built? to guard the bridge crossing the river what was the main business of the chatelet? the tribunal, where guillaume held court what was court like? -defendant took an oath on the bible ![]()
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Pepper's widow and her five children, unaware of the worth of the property, are waging a battle against poverty with the little money the matriarch earns by sewing. King is adamant about securing fifty percent ownership in a copper mine apparently owned by the family of its discoverer, the late John Pepper, a copper mining engineer. ![]() ![]() She has published seven short stories and novellas in US anthologies. There she began working on her first novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell.įrom 1993 to 2003, Susanna Clarke was an editor at Simon and Schuster's Cambridge office, where she worked on their cookery list. She returned to England in 1992 and spent the rest of that year in County Durham, in a house that looked out over the North Sea. The following year she taught English in Bilbao. ![]() In 1990, she left London and went to Turin to teach English to stressed-out executives of the Fiat motor company. ![]() She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and has worked in various areas of non-fiction publishing, including Gordon Fraser and Quarto. A nomadic childhood was spent in towns in Northern England and Scotland. ![]() Susanna Clarke was born in Nottingham in 1959. ![]() |