the guillotine took place at the place de la concorde in paris.
the guillotine took place at the place de la concorde in paris.
where did the guillotine take place in paris?
the place de la concorde
in october 1789 doctor joseph-ignace guillotin, in the interest of finding a more humane method, successfully had the means of execution changed to decapitation by a machine he perfected, the guillotine, built with the help of a paris manufacturer of pianos and harps named tobias schmidt and the surgeon antoine louis. the first person to be executed with the guillotine was the thief nicholas jacques pelletier, on 25 april 1792. after the uprising of the sans-culottes and the fall of the monarchy on august 10, 1792, the guillotine was turned against alleged counter-revolutionaries; the first to be executed by the guillotine was collenot d'angremont, accused of defending the tuileries palace against the attack of the sans-culottes; he was executed on 21 august 1792 on the place du carousel, next to the tuileries palace. the king was executed on the place de la concorde, renamed the place de la revolution, on 21 january 1793. from that date until 7 june 1794, 1,221 persons, or about three a day, were guillotined on the place de la revolution, including queen marie-antoinette on 16 october 1793. in 1794, for reasons of hygiene, the convention had the guillotine moved to the place saint-antoine, now the rue de la bastille, near the site of the old fortress; seventy-three heads were cut off in just three days. in june 1793, again for reasons of avoiding epidemics, it was moved to the place du tron-renversé (the place of the overturned throne, now place de la nation). there, at the height of the reign of terror, between 11 june and 27 july, 1,376 persons were beheaded, or about thirty a day. after the execution of robespierre himself, the reign of terror came to an end. the guillotine was moved to the place de grève, and was used only for the execution of common criminals.
paris in the 18th century
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a guillotine is a device for carrying out executions by decapitation, named after joseph-ignace guillotin.









































guillotine or guillotines may also refer to:









































section::::cutting devices.









































bullet::::- guillotine (metalwork)









































bullet::::- paper guillotine, another name for a paper cutter









































bullet::::- flying guillotine, an ancient chinese ranged weapon









































bullet::::- straight-bladed style of cigar cutter









































section::::sports.









































bullet::::- guillotine choke, a martial arts chokehold









































bullet::::- guillotine (wrestling), a spinal lock; also known as "the twister" to avoid confusion with the guillotine choke









































bullet::::- guillotine press-up, where the chest, head, and neck are lowered below the plane of the hands









































section::::games and magic.
guillotine (disambiguation)