Editing Flagellation (section)

====France====
During the [[French Revolutionary Wars]] the French Army stopped floggings altogether,<ref name="Rothenberg, p.179"/> inflicting death penalty or other severe corporal punishments instead.<ref>"... the infliction of corporal pain, without a Court-martial, and at the arbitrary will of the officers, did take place to a very great extent in the armies of Napoleon; in which, moreover, shooting was common to a degree that, he was persuaded, would astonish many hon. Gentlemen." [[Viscount Palmerston]] [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1833/apr/02/military-flogging#S3V0017P0_18330402_HOC_68 on Military flogging, Commons sitting, 02 April 1833] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240116105326/https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1833/apr/02/military-flogging#S3V0017P0_18330402_HOC_68 |date=16 January 2024 }}</ref>