Joseph Foullon de Doué

Joseph-François Foullon de Doué was a French politician and a Controller-General of Finances under Louis XVI. A deeply unpopular figure, he has the ignominious distinction of being the first recorded person to have been lynched à la lanterne.

25 June 1715

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