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Guillotine. A guillotine ( / ˈɡɪlətiːn, - loʊ -/ GHIH-lə-teen, -loh-) is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the ...
The French Revolution[ a] was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy, [ 1] while its values and institutions ...
V. François-Nicolas Vincent. Categories: People executed during the French Revolution. People executed by France by guillotine. Publicly executed people. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.
[33] [34] The radical revolutionaries and their supporters desired a cultural revolution that would rid the French state of all Christian influence. [35] This process began with the fall of the monarchy , an event that effectively defrocked the State of its sanctification by the clergy via the doctrine of Divine Right and ushered in an era of ...
1793 public execution of Louis XVI. Day of 21 January 1793 – the death of Louis Capet at the Place de la Révolution, by Charles Monnet(1794) Louis XVI, former King of Francesince the abolition of the monarchy, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolutionat the Place de la Révolutionin Paris.
Jeanne Bécu, Comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last maîtresse-en-titre of King Louis XV of France. She was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution on accusations of treason—particularly being suspected of assisting émigrés to flee from the Revolution. She is also known as “ Mademoiselle ...
Joseph-Ignace Guillotin ( French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃]; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods. Although he did not invent the guillotine and opposed ...
25 April 1792 (aged 35–36) Hôtel de Ville, Paris, France. Nationality. French. Occupation. Highwayman. Known for. First person to be executed by guillotine. Nicolas Jacques Pelletier (c. 1756 [1] – 25 April 1792) was a French highwayman who was the first person to be executed by guillotine.