<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XV_of_France" id="mwIw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Louis XV of France">Louis XV of France</a> survives an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination" id="mwJA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Assassination">assassination</a> attempt by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert-François_Damiens" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Robert-François Damiens">Robert-François Damiens</a>, who becomes the last person to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" id="mwJg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Capital punishment">executed</a> in France by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanged,_drawn_and_quartered" id="mwJw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hanged, drawn and quartered">drawing and quartering</a> (the traditional form of capital punishment used for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regicide" id="mwKA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Regicide">regicides</a>).<sup about="#mwt25" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"}}' id="cite_ref-3" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_5#cite_note-3" id="mwKQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwKg">[3]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-3"><cite about="#mwt22" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1" id="CITEREFChisholm1911"><a href="./Hugh_Chisholm" id="mwB-s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Hugh Chisholm">Chisholm, Hugh</a>, ed. (1911). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" id="mwB-w" title="s:1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Damiens, Robert François"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Damiens,_Robert_Fran%C3%A7ois" id="mwB-0" rel="mw:ExtLink">"Damiens, Robert François"<span id="mwB-4" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span></a></span>. <i id="mwB-8"><a href="./Encyclopædia_Britannica_Eleventh_Edition" id="mwB_A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition">Encyclopædia Britannica</a></i>. Vol.<span id="mwB_E" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>7 (11th<span id="mwB_I" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>ed.). Cambridge University Press. p.<span id="mwB_M" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>788.</cite><span about="#mwt22" class="Z3988" id="mwB_Q" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=bookitem&amp;rft.atitle=Damiens%2C+Robert+Fran%C3%A7ois&amp;rft.btitle=Encyclop%C3%A6dia+Britannica&amp;rft.pages=788&amp;rft.edition=11th&amp;rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&amp;rft.date=1911&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+5"></span><link about="#mwt22" href="./Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_a_citation_from_the_1911_Encyclopaedia_Britannica_with_Wikisource_reference" id="mwB_U" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>