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  2. List of people who were beheaded - Wikipedia

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    Wang Mang (王莽, 23 AD) – Founder of the Xin dynasty; posthumously beheaded after being killed by a rebel mob. Guan Yu (關羽, 219) – executed during civil war by Sun Quan. Guan Ping (關平, 219) – son of Guan Yu, executed during civil war by Sun Quan. Yu Cong (于琮, 881) – Tang official beheaded by agrarian rebel Huang Chao.

  3. Fall of Maximilien Robespierre - Wikipedia

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    The Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor or the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre is the series of events beginning with Maximilien Robespierre 's address to the National Convention on 8 Thermidor Year II (26 July 1794), his arrest the next day, and his execution on 10 Thermidor (28 July). In the speech of 8 Thermidor, Robespierre spoke of the existence of ...

  4. Madame du Barry - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Charlotte Corday - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Category:People executed by guillotine - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Hamida Djandoubi - Wikipedia

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    11 August 1974. Hamida Djandoubi ( Arabic: حميدة جندوبي, romanized : Ḥamīda Jandūbī; 22 September 1949 – 10 September 1977) was a Tunisian convicted murderer sentenced to death in France. He moved to Marseille in 1968, and six years later he was convicted of the kidnapping, torture and murder of 21-year-old Élisabeth Bousquet.

  8. Marie-Louise Giraud - Wikipedia

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    Marie-Louise Giraud. Marie-Louise Giraud (17 November 1903 – 30 July 1943) was one of the last women to be executed in France. Giraud was convicted in Vichy France and was guillotined for having performed 27 abortions in the Cherbourg area on 30 July 1943. Her story was dramatized in the 1988 film Story of Women directed by Claude Chabrol .

  9. Category:People executed by guillotine during the French ...

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    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.