Joseph ignace guillotine biography of donald

Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a French physician who, in 1789, proposed the use of a device to carry out the death penalties in France.  Whilst not in fact inventing the guillotine his name has become an eponym for it.  Guillotin died in Montmorillon in 1814.

Walt Whitman remains one of the most influential poets in the American canon and is often referred to as the father of free verse.  His work was considered very controversial at the time particularly his poetry collection published as Leaves of Grass in 1855 and described at the time as obscene for its overt sexuality.  Whitman died in Montmorillon in 1892.

Raymond Chandler was born in the USA in 1888, but lived and was educated in England between 1900 and 1912.  Chandler reached the age of forty-five before he decided to become a writer and his first short story “Blackmailers Don’t Shoot” was published in the seminal Black Mask magazine in 1933.  His first novel The Big Sleep was published in 1

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Guillotine

Apparatus designed for carrying out executions by beheading

This article is about the device used to carry out executions by beheading. For the paper slicing tool, see Paper cutter. For other uses, see Guillotine (disambiguation).

A guillotine (GHIL-ə-teenGHIL-ə-TEENGHEE-yə-teen)^[1] is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions bygd beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled blade suspended at the top. The condemned person is secured with a pillory at the bottom of the frame, holding the position of the neck directly below the blade. The blade is then released, swiftly and forcefully decapitating the victim with a single, clean pass; the head falls into a basket or other receptacle below.

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 vilifi

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History of the Guillotine

The guillotine

The guillotine is one of the most infamous execution devices in history. Known for its association with the French Revolution, this apparatus was designed for efficient and humane beheadings. It consists of a tall frame supporting a sharp, weighted blade, which, when released, swiftly decapitates the condemned person whose neck is secured at the bottom. Though it became a symbol of terror, the guillotine was initially introduced as a means to standardize and humanize executions.

Early Precursors

The principle of a weighted blade executing a person dates back long before the guillotine’s adoption in France. A literary reference to a similar device appears in the Old French High History of the Holy Grail (c. 1210), describing a blade that drops to sever heads. The Halifax Gibbet, used in England, and the Scottish Maiden, introduced in 1564, were both early forms of mechanical beheading machines. The Maiden was used until 1716 and is