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
