The pillory was a device that was placed in the public square, a device to which a convict was attached in order to be shown to all to mark his infamousness. It was shot three times so everyone could see it.
According to Ernest Prarond, the pillory at Abbeville was built in 1332 by an English seneschal despite the protests of the inhabitants who destroyed it in 1352 and replaced it with a Christ.

Long empty the central reservation, planted with trees still stunted, is, since October 1907, occupied by the bronze statue of Boucher de Perthes, due to the sculptor Abbevillois Emmanuel Fontaine, and solemnly inaugurated on June 7, 1908 in the presence of a crowd of prehistorians, scientists and some 15000 curious.
During the Second World War, in January 1942 the Germans removed it from its base and sent it to Germany to melt. She will disappear forever.
During the reconstruction of the city, by national subscription will be erected in this place a monument to the glory of the deportees, interned patriots and shot Abbeville and surrounding areas. The monument, endowed with four crosses of Lorraine, symbol of resistance and erected by Maurice Merchez is inaugurated on July 11, 1947.