such as banishment, pilgrimages, jail or even death sentences. Nicole Gothier notes: Amende honorable by John the Fearless (1408) The first widely known example of Amende honorable is the one made by Duke of Burgundy John the Fearless, after the murder of Duke Louis of Orleans in 1408: Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, baron de Barante thus describes the ordeal: Grande Rebeyne revolt (1529) After the failed Grande Rebeyne revolt in Lyon, several rebels were sentenced to an Amende honorable in the streets of the city: Amende honorable as part of the execution of Robert-François Damiens (1757) The amende honorable was sometimes incorporated into a larger ritual of capital punishment (specifically the French version of drawing and quartering) for parricides and regicides; this is described in the 1975 book Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault, notably in reference to Robert-François Damiens who was condemned to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris in 1757. In the arts In Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, the death sentence imposed on Esmeralda includes an amende honorable: L'Amende Honorable is the name of an 1831 painting by Eugène Delacroix - it depicts an imaginary scene, taking place in the 16th century in the Palace of Justice in Rouen, in which a monk is dragged before the Bishop of Madrid for rebelling against his orders. Alphonse Legros also painted an Amende Honorable (around 1868), depicting a religious court at the time of the Inquisition. References Punishments