Guillotine

The Guillotine - that devilish device by which Louis XVI, found guilty of treason, met his end in the French Revolution - was in fact based on a British predecessor called the "Halifax Gibbet", which was used for executions as early as the 13th century.

GUILLOTINE RESOURCES:

• About.com - History of the Guillotine
• Engines Of Our Ingenuity - Guillotin/Guillotine
• Hamida Djandoubi - last person guillotined in France, 1977
• Les Francais decouvrent la guillotine
• French vs. British Guillotine
• French Kiss - The Terror & The Guillotine
• French Revolution by Ben Anderson
• Guillotine Game
• Guillotine Game - GameReport Review
• History of the Guillotine, 1792 - 1977
• HistoryWiz - Guillotine
• Images of the French Revolution
• Guillotine Image Search
• The Guillotine Headquarters
• "Marie Antoinette" by Antonia Fraser
• "Master Of The Flying Guillotine" (1975)
• NapoleonGuide.com - Guillotine
• Rotten.com - Guillotine
• Wikipedia - Guillotine