Etienne-Benjamin Deschauffours

Etienne-Benjamin Deschauffours (1690, Viviers – 24 May 1726) was a French procurer. He was executed by burning for homosexuality on Place de Grève in Paris after having acted as a pimp of male prostitutes, some of which were underage boys whom he kidnapped, one of whom he are suspected of having murdered.[1]

He were responsible for having prostituted about 200 males to male aristocrats, clerics and noblemen, and his arrested and trials were delayed a long time to avoid scandal, during which he was imprisoned in the Bastille, before he was finally put on trial. His trial were a famous case in his time and attracted a lot of attention.

References
  1. Jim Chevallier, The Old Regime Police Blotter II: Sodomites, Tribads and "Crimes Against Nature" , Chez Jim,2010, 222 s. ISBN 978-1-4348-1941-3
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