Guillotine Collection (page 2)

Preparing and spinning flax - Slovakia
Preparing and spinning flax - Kendertorok Ponikon, Zolyom County, Slovakia - formerly part of the Hungarian Empire. The woman on the right is breaking the flax

Marie Antoinette on her way to the scaffold, Paris, 1793
Engraving showing Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), the wife of King Louis XVI of France, being taken from her prison cell to the guillotine, October 1793

Loterie LA Guillotine
During the Revolution, an enterprising citizen organises a Loterie de la Sainte Guillotine : he reads out the names of the winners

Revolutionary Tribunal
The Revolutionary Tribunal in the Abbaye prison, Paris, is a popular attraction : what fun, to see people sentenced to the guillotine !

A Representative
Passers-by look with more apprehension than affection at a typical representative of the people who could send them to the guillotine without turning a hair

Jean Francois De Lacroix
JEAN FRANCOIS DE LA CROIX French revolutionary statesman whose views earned him a rendezvous with Madame Guillotine

Burning the Gullotine
The guillotine, symbol of oppression, is burnt by the Communards

Jacobins medal
The Club or Societe des Jacobins, also calling themselves Montagnards, wear this medal with pride - perhaps even as they go to the guillotine

Girondins Condemned
The revolutionary tribunal arrests 22 Girondins and condemns them to the guillotine

Loiserolles Heroism
Loiserolles takes the place of his friend on the guillotine, one of many acts of heroism among the prisoners during the Reign of Terror

Princesse De Polignac
YOLANDE MARTINE GABRIELLE DE POLASTRON, duchesse de POLIGNAC - ambitious and scheming aristocrat, friend of Marie Antoinette and fellow victim of the guillotine

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
JOSEPH-IGNACE GUILLOTIN French medical, inventor of the guillotine

Dickens / Tale of 2 Cities
Sydney Carton - lawyer who gets a charge of treason reversed for Charles Darnay due to a strong physical resemblance; he takes Darneys place at the guillotine

Mesmer and Bailly
Mesmer, whose work had been unfavourably reported by Bailly, salutes the latter as he is led to the guillotine

Victims of Terror
The names of imprisoned aristocrats are read out, summoning them to the guillotine

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