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What was the revolutionary guillotine?

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The guillotine, which came to symbolize the French Revolution, was first used in 1792. ... Proposed by Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the guillotine was meant to be a humane form of capital punishment because it reduced suffering.

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The guillotine, which came to symbolize the French Revolution, was first used in 1792. Its scaffold was the final stage for Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, aristocrats, foreigners, revolutionaries, counterrevolutionaries, bourgeoisie, and peasants alike. Was it an instrument of democratic justice, or a weapon of tyrannical terror? For more information, click on the flag, the knitting woman, the head of the victim, the executioner, and the woman awaiting execution

Prior to the Revolution, only aristocrats could afford beheadings. Proposed by Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the guillotine was meant to be a humane form of capital punishment because it reduced suffering. During the Revolution, its image was popularized in jewelry and toys. But the justice that the guillotine once represented was marred by the Reign of Terror. In 1794, thousands were imprisoned and killed for being counterrevolutionary. Dying for liberty was heroic in the view of many revolutionary French. Appearing dignified and unafraid on the scaffold was important to most of the convicted. To come to terms with their imminent death, prisoners rehearsed their execution. Fellow prisoners took the part of tribunal members—some the part of the executioners, and others the part of the sneering mob. The victim always played himself or herself and went, hands bound behind, to the guillotine prop-usually a bed or two chairs. One military officer on his way to the scaffold told Charles-Henri Sanson, Paris's chief executioner, "Today's the actual performance: you'll be surprised how well I know my role."

The guillotine that once stood at the Place de la Révolution (now called the Place de la Concorde) rests in storage in a museum outside Paris. The guillotine

remained in use in France until 1977, but the last public guillotine execution was in 1939. France outlawed the death penalty in 1981.