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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 ...
Marie Antoinette ( / ˌæntwəˈnɛt, ˌɒ̃t -/; [ 1] French: [maʁi ɑ̃twanɛt] ⓘ; Maria Antonia Josefa Johanna; 2 November 1755 – 16 October 1793) was the last queen consort of France prior to the French Revolution as the wife of King Louis XVI. Born Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, she was the penultimate child and youngest ...
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 ...
Politics portal. v. t. e. Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre ( French: [maksimiljɛ̃ ʁɔbɛspjɛʁ]; 6 May 1758 – 10 Thermidor, Year II 28 July 1794) was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognized as one of the most influential and controversial figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre fervently campaigned for the ...
Nine émigrés are executed by guillotine, 1793. Date: 5 September 1793 – 27 July 1794 ... An additional 10,000 to 12,000 people had been executed without trial and ...
Charlotte Marie Jacqueline Gaultier de Mesnival. Signature. Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known simply as Charlotte Corday ( French: [kɔʁdɛ] ), was a figure of the French Revolution who assassinated revolutionary and Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat on 13 July 1793. Born in Normandy to a minor ...
People executed by France by guillotine (2 C, 46 P) Pages in category "People executed by guillotine" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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.