A nice video about victims of the guillotine, mostly from Revolutionary period https://youtu.be/PO3rjRDp_W0
Skip SmoyerAug 30, 2024Maybe a podcast Union of Salvation? While much after the Napoleonic era, some players were. Napoleonic movies brought this up.LikeReactions03 comments3Views
Kevin F. KileyAug 24, 2021Prussian Military Reforms, 1786-1813 by William ShanahanLikeReactions04 comments4Views
Eckhard M. TheewenMar 18Who is the British soldier who published his memoirs before 1827?LikeReactions08 comments8Views
I'd rather get the sack than the chop.
Some euphemisms for being guillotined:
Looking thorugh the little window
Kissing the sharp-tongued woman.
The guillotine was much more humaine than either of the most common forms of execution:
For common criminals: The short drop in which the criminal was knocked off a stool to dangle and dance.
For royalty/ nobles: beheading with an ax. The axeman sometimes did not cut cleanly on the first chop. Much to be preferred was the "French swordsman"
It is said that Louis XVI's necks was so thick that it took guillotine drops to kill him.