MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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firing squad
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guillotine
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gallows
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burning at the stake
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793. His wife, Mary Antoinette, was executed in the same way nine months later.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ultimately unwilling to cede his royal power to the Revolutionary government, Louis XVI was found guilty of treason and condemned to death. He was guillotined on January 21, 1793.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ultimately, they condemned him to death by a simple majority wrong . The execution by guillotine was performed four days later by Charles-Henri Sanson, then High Executioner of the French First Republic and previously royal executioner under Louis.
Detailed explanation-4: -It worked by dropping a weighted blade down a wooden frame onto the victim’s neck, severing their head. Death would have been almost instantaneous. In 1791, a French doctor named Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposed the machine be used in France, as a more humane method of capital punishment.