Guillotine: The Timbers Of Justice by Robert Frederick Opie

Guillotine: The Timbers Of Justice

Robert Frederick Opie

256 pages first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history informative fast-paced
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The guillotine is undoubtedly the most potent image of revolutionary France, the tool whereby a whole society was 'redesigned'. Yet what came to be seen as an instrument of terror was, paradoxically, introduced as the result of the humanitarian fe...

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