"Dr Guillotin's daughter" Topic
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| SgtPerry | 05 Dec 2009 8:43 a.m. PST |
What would be the french revolution without the guillotine? Unforgiving, it was the doom of many royalists as well as republicans. link Olivier |
| Skeptic | 05 Dec 2009 10:26 a.m. PST |
Nice work, as always! Note that there is a typo.: "Mow down Window" |
| Old Slow Trot | 05 Dec 2009 10:29 a.m. PST |
Fine version of the "National Razor". |
| mweaver | 05 Dec 2009 2:51 p.m. PST |
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Frederick  | 05 Dec 2009 3:35 p.m. PST |
Nice diorama I especially like the "sans culottes" |
| Rob UK | 07 Dec 2009 2:57 a.m. PST |
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| Whatisitgood4atwork | 07 Dec 2009 8:24 p.m. PST |
Very good work. I'll get my knitting. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 08 Dec 2009 3:34 a.m. PST |
Nicely done. Whilst invariably associated with the French Revolution, there was a guillotine-type machine operating in Halifax, England, in the 14th Century. A peculiar quirk was that anyone sentenced for stealing livestock was executed by the livestock themselves being attached to the rope and driven away until the rope broke. |
| SgtPerry | 08 Dec 2009 6:29 a.m. PST |
In fact Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a doctor and specialist in anatomy was a member of the french republican assembly. He wrote a law in order to simplify the executions ( hanging, beheading, burning, etc.) and to give the same punishement regardless of the rank of the victim. The system was built by Dr Antoine Louis who enhanced a similar system yet existing in Italy with the help of a german engineer, Tobias Schmidt. So it looks more like a european technology than a french one. Olivier |
| DHautpol | 09 Dec 2009 7:26 a.m. PST |
Introduced by a Frenchman, adapted from an Italian design with German engineering – very "communautaire". Vorsprung Durch Technik as they later came to say in Germany. |
Mal Wright  | 20 Dec 2009 4:30 a.m. PST |
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