French Reds want more green measures. The manifesto decrees moratoriums galore: on the use of pesticides, Sri-Lanka-style; on water reservoirs farmers use during droughts; even – mooted in ...

Joseph Vacher was executed via guillotine after he was found guilty of murder, but the true number of his victims remains a ...

French politicians have been threatened with the guillotine if they support President Emmanuel Macron's Government in a parliamentary no-confidence vote today. Police said hundreds of macabre ...

The guillotine is synonymous with the terror that followed the French Revolution, but did the machine's inventor really fall victim to his own creation? Myth: Joseph ...

The French guillotine, as we know it today, originated in late 1789. It should be noted that French physician and politician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not invent the guillotine; however ...

That morning, the French king made his last procession to the Place de la Révolution. An hour-and-a-half-long coach journey through the streets of Paris brought the monarch to the guillotine and ...

it also saved her from the guillotine in revolutionary France. Few musicians throughout history can say their playing liberated them from imprisonment. Even fewer can say it literally saved their ...

For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to countless movies, books and half-remembered history lessons ...

The guillotine was France's method of judicial execution for almost 200 years. AFP PHOTO / DAMIEN MEYER (Photo by DAMIEN MEYER / AFP) The guillotine is synonymous ...