 Torture was not administered after a trial concluded, and executions were always held after and separate from the "auto-da-fé", though in the minds and experiences of observers and those undergoing the confession and execution, the separation of the two might be experienced as merely a technicality.The first recorded "auto-da-fé" was held in Paris in 1242, during the reign of Louis IX.The first Spanish "auto-da-fé" did not take place until 1481 in Seville; six of the men and women subjected to this first religious ritual were later executed.