
Trial by combat: the real history behind The Last Duel
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The Last Jewel
The fight lasts a really long time, so that the spectators who'd come kind of got their money's worth. And then finally, jeander, jean de carouge, manages to rip the visor from jacques legri's face and bury his sword in himand that's that. So jacques le grie dies on the on the lists in front of this huge audience. But his body is then executed posthumously in order to make the point that he is the guilty party,. He is therefore to be punished as a rapist, as a criminal. That's the end of it. If anybody wants to go and see the last jewel, and and doesn
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