biography
| name: |
Guillotin, Joseph Ignace
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pronunciation:
[geeyohtĩ]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1738–1814)
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| biography:
| Physician and revolutionary, born in Saintes, W France. He proposed to the Constituent Assembly, of which he was a deputy, the use of a decapitating instrument as a means of execution. This was adopted in 1791 and named after him (the guillotine), though a similar apparatus had been used earlier in Scotland, Germany, and Italy. It was last used in France in 1977. |
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