Guillotine

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Guillotine Museum of Bruchsal (Germany).
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Guillotine
Museum of Bruchsal (Germany).
The weapon of the radicals Sketch by George Cruikshank (1819)."No God! No religion! No king! No constitution!" .
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The weapon of the radicals
Sketch by George Cruikshank (1819).
"No God! No religion! No king! No constitution!"
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The guillotine is a machine used to kill people (by chopping off their heads). It got its first common use in France during the French Revolution of 1789. It was in common use in France, Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. Since all those countries have stopped capital punishment (the death penalty), the guilliotine is no longer in use.

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