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Being “broken at the wheel” entailed being tied to a wheel and having your bones broken through its gaps. “The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes” is discussed in Barbara Tuchman (1984), The March of Folly, chapter 1, p 21; Heather Rae, “State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples”, Cambridge Studies in International Relations, vol 84, 2002, pp 114–116.