La guillotine et la politique omniprésente dans l’espace public: la période de la Terreur, en 1793 et 1794, est exposée au musée Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris à partir de mercredi. « Des expositions ...
The planned auction Wednesday of a 150-year-old “instrument of torture” is causing a rift in Paris. A 10-foot tall working guillotine that an auction house insists never beheaded anyone -- despite ...
The remains of hundreds of people guillotined during the French Revolution may be buried in the walls of a Paris chapel. The Guardian reports that bones have been discovered in the wall cavities of ...