HC History's Mysteries - Dr. Guillotine and his Execution Machine (2005)
HC History's Mysteries - Dr. Guillotine and his Execution Machine (2005)
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Genre: Documentary
A study of the beheading device invented by Joseph Ignace Guillotin, the instrument once dubbed the "National Razor" of France.
A dethroned king, a flamboyant queen, the storming of a fortress prison and an infamous bloodbath known as the Reign of Terror. The guillotine was proposed as a humane means of execution, but it soon became associated with horrors such as ethnic cleansing and the Reign of Terror in Paris.
Before the guillotine, executions in France were public spectacles where criminals faced gruesome deaths like quartering, while the upper class could opt for hanging or beheading. Doctor Joseph Ignace Guillotin advocated for a more humane and equal capital punishment method, leading to the invention of the guillotine with German engineer Tobias Schmidt. Intended as an interim step towards abolishing the death penalty altogether, the guillotine was used to execute thousands during the French Revolution, including King Louis XVI, before the last use in Marseille, France in 1977.
Guillotin had what he felt were the purest motives for inventing the guillotine and was deeply distressed at how his reputation had become besmirched in the aftermath. Guillotin had bestowed the deadly contraption on the French as a "philanthropic gesture" for the systematic criminal justice reform that was taking place in 1789. The machine was intended to show the intellectual and social progress of the French Revolution; by killing aristocrats and journeymen the same way, equality in death was ensured.
The first use of the guillotine was on April 25, 1792, when Nicolas Pelletier was put to death for armed robbery and assault in Place de Greve. The newspapers reported that guillotine was not an immediate sensation. The crowds seemed to miss the gallows at first. However, it quickly caught on with the public and many thought it brought dignity back to the executioner.
However, the prestige of the guillotine fell precipitously due to its frequent use in the French Terror following the Revolution. It became the focal point of the awful political executions and was so closely identified with the terrible abuses of the time that it was perceived as partially responsible for the excesses itself. Still, it was used sporadically in France into the 20th century.
Travel back to the days of the guillotine as HISTORY delves into the dark undercurrent of instability ushered in by the revolution and some of its most influential figures, including Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat, Georges Danton, and Charlotte Corday.
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