It may come as a surprise to some that France routinely used the guillotine as its official method of capital punishment until 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi became the last man guillotined in the port ...
The guillotine is synonymous with the terror that followed the French Revolution, but did the machine's inventor really fall victim to his own creation? Myth: Joseph ...
A common rumor holds that Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the Frenchman who invented the guillotine, was also eventually executed with the device. But as the Dictionary of Eponyms notes, "Dr. Joseph ...
The guillotine was France's method of judicial execution for almost 200 years. AFP PHOTO / DAMIEN MEYER (Photo by DAMIEN MEYER / AFP) The guillotine is synonymous ...
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