MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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The Bastille
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Sans-Culottes
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Guillotine
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The Great Beheader
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Detailed explanation-1: -guillotine, instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation, introduced into France in 1792.
Detailed explanation-2: -The guillotine is an instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation that came into common use in France after 1792 (during the French Revolution). In 1789, a French physician first suggested that all criminals should be executed by a “machine that beheads painlessly."
Detailed explanation-3: -The guillotine was a device consisting of two poles and a blade with which a person was beheaded. This device was invented by Dr. Guillotin.
Detailed explanation-4: -The guillotine is best known as a method of executing those condemned to death during the French Revolution. Although it delivered a grisly end – by slicing off its victim’s head, death by guillotine was quick and humane.
Detailed explanation-5: -Use of the guillotine continued in France in the 19th and 20th centuries, and the last execution by guillotine occurred in 1977. In September 1981, France outlawed capital punishment altogether, thus abandoning the guillotine forever. There is a museum dedicated to the guillotine in Liden, Sweden.