History of Europe

The first pardon in history granted before committing the crime

The outrages and abuses of the nobility have been a constant throughout history, but I believe that none reached the extreme of Carlos de Borbón, count of Charolais . From a family with a pedigree, since he was the son of Luis III de Borbón-Condé and Luisa Francisca de Borbón, legitimized daughter of King Louis XIV of France and his mistress Madame de Montespan, and with some military success, after participating in the battle of Belgrade against the Turks, this character was allowed to do whatever he wanted at any time and place... and not good. Violent, arrogant, depraved - here perhaps his paternal heritage had something to do with it, in fact his father was known as le Singe Vert ( the Green Monkey) due to the ugliness and depravities of him-, bloodthirsty and… everything that you seem to add.

These are some examples of his misdeeds:he liked to kidnap women to organize sadistic orgies -they say that the Marquis de Sade had him as a reference-; He "joked" by tying up women and then setting their skirts on fire, as he did with the Marquise de Saint-Sulpice, severely burning her legs; he relaxed doing target practice with the musket, nothing unusual if it weren't for the fact that he did it with the peasants; he was a strict watcher of the rules and regulatory signs of circulation-he beat the coachman of the Spanish ambassador to death when he stopped his carriage in an area destined for the nobility-; crossing his path was like playing Russian roulette (in the middle of the street, with many witnesses and without saying a word, he shot and killed a neighbor of Anet's)... and all this with the aggravating circumstance that he always got away with it, which made him it made him grow bigger and bigger until he felt untouchable. The mediation of his powerful father and his kinship with royalty had ensured that his police and criminal records were untainted.

After the fourth or fifth complaint for murder -and I say complaint, who knows how many he had committed-, the regent of France Philip II, Duke of Orleans , fed up with this wretch, he told him that it was the last thing that happened to him...

…and I warn you that in case of recidivism, a pardon is granted in advance for whoever ends up with you.

No one was pardoned. He died in 1760, at the age of 60, when his time came. It was the first pardon in history granted before committing the crime.