Guillotine

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“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

Revolutionary, France, revolution, guillotine, guillotin, gillotine, gilotine, gilatine, guilloteen, guiloteen, giloteen, behead, beheading

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Prisons and Punishments, France Miscellaneous

Source

Everybody's Cyclopedia (New York, NY: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1912)

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