USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Across France, 16, 594 people were fed to the guillotine, 2, 625 of whom were executed in Paris alone. This number does not include the roughly 10, 000 people who died in prison, nor the tens of thousands who were killed in the various mass executions carried out without trial.

Detailed explanation-2: -Although it delivered a grisly end – by slicing off its victim’s head, death by guillotine was quick and humane. During the ‘Reign of Terror’ in France, as many as 40, 000 people were executed by ‘Madame Guillotine’.

Detailed explanation-3: -The device soon became known as the “guillotine” after its advocate, and more than 10, 000 people lost their heads by guillotine during the Revolution, including Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, the former king and queen of France.

Detailed explanation-4: -"During the Reign of Terror, at least 300, 000 suspects were arrested; 17, 000 were officially executed, and perhaps 10, 000 died in prison or without trial."

Detailed explanation-5: -Between June 14 and July 27, 1794, hundreds of nobles, shopkeepers, clergy, corset makers, vintners, and other “suspicious” citizens were executed by guillotine at Place de la Nation in Paris. It was the height of the French Revolution-Robespierre’s Reign of Terror.