Then, in conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in France, in the city of Nimes, protestant women were beaten in the bare buttocks with battoirs, (a flat heavy implement for beating the clothes while washing), with the added detail of a fleur-de-lis pictured by the protruding points of nails driven thru the wood. The instrument (without the fleur-de-lis) had been commonly used for domestic punishments. At about the same time is the paddle for punishing slaves. We all relate slavery with the single-tailed whip, and it was the preferred implement for punishments. However, after the slave import ban by the British and the USA in 1808, the price of slaves rose (as also the price of tobacco, sugar, and cotton).
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