Guillotine Small 258×320 Medium 515×640 Large 824×1024 Download Tiff Original 1932×2400 | (1.3 MB) Description "The guillotine is an apparatus for beheading persons at one stroke, adopted by the National Assembly of France during the first Revolution, on the proposals of a Dr. Guillotin, after whom it was named."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911) Keywords behead, beheading, France, gilatine, gillotine, giloteen, gilotine, guilloteen, guillotin, guillotine, guiloteen, revolution, Revolutionary Galleries France Miscellaneous, Prisons and Punishments Source: Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)
