Guillotine

Guillotine
ISBN-10
0752496050
ISBN-13
9780752496054
Category
Social Science
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
1997-03-27
Publisher
The History Press
Author
Robert Frederick Opie

Description

The guillotine is a most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was 'redesigned'. Tracing the development of the guillotine, this book recounts the stories of famous executions, the lives of the executioners, and the research into whether the head retained consciousness after it was separated from the body.

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