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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...