Le crime fait la honte, et non pas l'échafaud!
The crime causes the shame, and not the scaffold!
Source: Thomas Corneille
Taken From: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay (1841)
About: This quote is used referring to the shame that certain deaths shouldn't be used on persons of Noble birth, because of such shame that death by hanging can bring the family. However, as stated above, the shame isn't in the type of death, but in the crime.
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