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Updated: May 17, 2025
The guillotine a machine for beheading, which Guillotin, a physician, did not invent, but recommended for use was the instrument on which the fanatical revolutionists placed most of their reliance for the extirpation of "aristocracy."
Yes, if Lenny had been caught breaking the stocks, some at least would have pitied him; but to be incarcerated for defending them! You might as well have expected that the widows and orphans of the Reign of Terror would have pitied Dr. Guillotin when he slid through the grooves of his own deadly machine.
It was imagined by a Mons. Guillotin, a physician of Paris, and member of the Constituent Assembly. The original design seems not so much to spare pain to the criminal, as obloquy to the executioner. I, however, perceive little difference between a man's directing a Guillotine, or tying a rope; and I believe the people are of the same opinion.
A gruesome engine that they facetiously called the National Razor invented and designed some years ago by one Dr. Guillotin is but an item in the changes that have been, yet an item that in its way has become a very factor.
"You saw how slight that instrument was? It was one of the first which Guillotin made, and which he showed to private friends in a hangar in the Rue Picpus, where he lived.
And this language is always growing; it keeps pace with civilization, and is enriched with some new expression by every fresh invention. Flimsy! In 1790 Guillotin invented, with humane intent, the expeditious machine which solved all the difficulties involved in the problem of capital punishment.
Lady Warriston was found guilty, and four days after the murder, on the 5th of July, was taken to the Girth Cross of Holyrood, at the foot of the Canongate, and there decapitated by that machine which rather anticipated the inventiveness of Dr Guillotin ``the Maiden. At the same time, four o'clock in the morning, Janet Murdo, the nurse, and one of the serving-women accused with her as accomplices were burned on the Castle Hill of the city.
The invention created some little conversation amongst scientific men at the time, though I remember a machine in Edinburgh of a very similar construction, two hundred well, many, many years ago and at a breakfast which Guillotin gave he showed us the instrument, and much talk arose amongst us as to whether people suffered under it.
He is in bad health. "Behold your papers, countersigned." "One can depart, citizen?" "One can depart." The ministers of Sainte Guillotin are robed and ready. Crash! and the women who sit with their knitting in front of the guillotine count one. Crash! and the women count two.
The instrument of death, with its blood-red beams and posts, stood prominent above the multitudinous assemblage in the damp, murky air. The guillotine was erected in the center of the Place de la Revolution, directly in the front of the garden of the Tuileries. This celebrated instrument of death was invented in Italy by a physician named Guillotin, and from him received its name.
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