A well-dressed plumpish man, who bore a striking resemblance to France’s late, great King Louis XVI, was a determined auction bidder in Paris last week for a dull, tarnished guillotine blade ...

When we think of guillotines, our minds turn to scenes of the French Revolution ... select the right tool, or blade, for the job. At National, we developed the guillotine blade as an angled ...

It took on a distinct structure, featuring a tall, vertical frame with a slanted and weighted blade suspended at ... era as the "mannaia." The French guillotine, as we know it today, originated ...

The “Halifax Gibbet” of the 13th century used a swinging axe blade. In 1307 ... over the centuries but the most infamous was the French guillotine. In 18th century France there was growing ...

In a 1973 book, French lawyer Robert Badinter (above, in red scarf) described the “sharp crack” of the guillotine blade at the execution of one of his clients. In 1981, as France’s new ...

as they look at gruesome methods of execution under the French monarchy, the changing role of executioners, how the Guillotine came to loom so large over the fate of so many… ...