Browsing: August 2

A Brief History On August 2, 1343, Olivier Clisson, a French nobleman from Brittany, was convicted of treason in Paris and beheaded.  He had been fighting the British in the Hundred Years War, and when his success tapered off, he was criticized and accused of treason, perhaps to deflect blame from French losses. Digging Deeper Olivier, miffed and sensing danger, then defected to the English for real and was later arrested.  Taken to Paris for trial, he was beheaded, as was the fate of traitors in those days.  His head was placed on display at Nantes, and his enraged wife (widow)…