Citation - American Weekly Mercury: 1738.02.21

AWM.738.006
14-23 Mar 1738:31 (951)
[In article about military justice in France:] . . . Another
exempt, a gentleman born, (but formerly a soldier in the
Foot Guards, where he was a noted rogue) call'd Beaulieu de
Montigny was beheaded last Monday, and the executioner when
he struck of his head, receiv'd all that applause from the
spectators, which the best actors meet with on the stage
from their audience: . . .