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Who invented the first guillotine?

April 26, 2017Arts guillotine History Humanities invented

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Who invented the first guillotine?

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Beheading was an old means of execution and beheading machines were around long before the French Revolution. What Guillotine and his committee did was to apply this penalty to everyone, not just the nobility (under the Ancien Regime, commoners were hanged).