The guillotine is best known for its use in France, particularly during the French Revolution, where the revolution's supporters celebrated it as the people's avenger and the revolution's opponents vilified it as the pre-eminent symbol of the violence of the Reign of Terror. [2] .

2024年12月21日 · guillotine, instrument for inflicting capital punishment by decapitation, introduced into France in 1792. The device consists of two upright posts surmounted by a crossbeam and grooved so as to guide an oblique-edged knife, the back of which is heavily weighted to make it fall forcefully upon (and slice through) the neck of a prone victim.

2019年1月23日 · 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 …

2019年3月24日 · Learn about the events that brought the guillotine to prominence, and also the machine's place in a broader history of decapitation which, as far as France is concerned, …

2014年9月15日 · Learn eight surprising facts about the execution device once dubbed the “National Razor” of France. Updated: August 7, 2023 | Original: September 15, 2014. 1. Its origins date back to the Middle...

The guillotine is a machine used to execute people by decapitation (chopping off their heads). A guillotine is made of a heavy blade attached to a rack, which moves up and down on a vertical frame. When the executioner releases the rack, it falls and the blade cuts the convict 's head off.

2023年1月25日 · Most of us are familiar with the guillotine. It’s a set of stocks into which a person’s head is placed and secured before an extremely sharp blade is released from a height to fall at speed on a person’s exposed neck severing the victim’s head clean from their body.

2024年5月23日 · What is a Guillotine? The guillotine is a bladed device designed for carrying out executions by beheading. The structure of the device involves a tall, heavy frame from which a …

2017年9月15日 · Introducing the guillotine: a ‘humane’ form of execution? Some members of the public initially complained that this ‘humane’ machine was too quick and clinical, but before long the process had evolved into high entertainment. People went to the place de la Révolution in droves to watch the gruesome daily spectacle when the tumbrels arrived.

Inspired by middle age beheading devices, the Guillotine became a common fixture in the wake of the French Revolution, severing the heads of thousands, including King Louis the 16th and Marie Antoinette.