WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -During the French Revolution, the guillotine became the primary symbol of the Reign of Terror and was used to execute thousands of people, including King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette.

Detailed explanation-2: -During the Reign of Terror (June 1793 to July 1794) about 17, 000 people were guillotined, including former King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette who were executed at the guillotine in 1793.

Detailed explanation-3: -By a single vote, Louis was sentenced to death, “within twenty–four hours.” Thus, on 21 January 1793, Louis Capet, formerly King of France was beheaded by the guillotine. For the first time in a thousand years, the French people were not ruled by a monarch.

Detailed explanation-4: -PARIS-Since the first blade plunged in 1792, the French guillotine has inspired dread and dark nicknames: the widow, the barber, the national razor.

Detailed explanation-5: -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."