Editing Jacques Ferron (bestiality)

'''Jacques Ferron''' was a Frenchman who was tried and hanged in 1750 for copulation with a jenny (female donkey).<ref name=EPA>{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Edward Payson|title=The criminal prosecution and capital punishment of animals|year=1987|isbn=978-0-571-14893-6|pages=150–151}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Ever since Adam and Eve: the evolution of human sexuality|last1=Potts|first1=Malcolm|last2=Short|first2=Roger Valentine|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999|page=110|isbn=978-0-521-64404-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RoDv0JiIqF4C}}</ref>

The trial took place in the commune of Vanves and Ferron was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.<ref>{{cite book|last=Ford, Beach|first=C.S, F.A|title=Patterns of Sexual Behaviour|publisher=Taylor & Francis|page=153}}</ref> In cases such as these it was usual that the animal would also be sentenced to death,<ref>{{cite book|last=Costlow, Nelson|first=Jane, Amy|title=Other Animals: Beyond the Human in Russian Culture and History|year=2010|isbn=978-0-8229-6063-8|page=38}}</ref>  but in this case the she-ass was acquitted. The court decided that the animal was a victim and had not participated of her own free will. A document, dated 19 September 1750, was submitted to the court on  behalf of the she-ass that attested to the virtuous nature of the animal. Signed by the parish priest and other principal residents of the commune it proclaimed that "they were willing to bear witness that she is in word and deed and in all her habits of life a most honest creature."<ref name=EPA/>

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