The definition of the guillotine, is a device for beheading a person by means of a heavy blade that is dropped between two posts serving as guides. (“guillotine”) The guillotine is something that would brought into use during the French Revolution, and was first used in the year 1792. However, that is what historians know and have been told. In reality it had been used years before in some other countries, maybe not the exact guillotine, but things and killing tactics very similar. During the 1790s…
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