WHO DEVISED GUILLOTINE?
Who invented the guillotine seems to bo troubling the French since there has been agitation for the discontinuance of beheading by machine. ~- • ■ •
Dr. Josepii-Ignaee Gullotin, an authority on anat'omy,'member of the Assembly during the Revolution, demanded "equality before the ■executioner," and the guillotine was "adopted.
It was not the doctor, who proposed it, but because He suggested a' standard form of execution and because. of tlie similarity of name, the guillotine has been supposed by most people to have been the doctor's invention. -.
Old engravings left by the Baroness de Rothschild, however, show much the eame machine was used centuries ago. German artists in 1550 drew a picture of a machine quite like the modern instrument, and Italians, illustrating a story of Roman days_, showed a similar device in which a heavy sword falling in a groove, did the beheading. ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 7 (Supplement)
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143WHO DEVISED GUILLOTINE? Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 7 (Supplement)
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