Guillotine: The Timbers of Justice by Robert Frederick Opie

Guillotine: The Timbers of Justice

Robert Frederick Opie

210 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative sad slow-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 f...

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