The title of the book is "Birth of a Prison." Starting the book with a description of the public execution of a certain Damien who attempted to assassinate Louis XV (1757), as well as reproducing the daily routine for the Paris House of Young Prisoners (1838), Foucault concludes that within less than a century (mid-18 to first-third of the 19th century). ) there was a "disappearance of public executions by torture": "for several decades, the executed, tortured, dismembered body, symbolically branded in the face or shoulder, put on public display alive or dead. The body disappeared as the main target of judicial and criminal repression.". As a result, according to Foucault, "punishment gradually becomes the most hidden part of the criminal procedure"; "the theatricalization of suffering is excluded from punishment"