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What happened to Josephine Bonaparte's first husband?
He faced the guillotine during the Reign of Terror on 23 July 1794.
What does 'I shall be deemed to have predeceased my husband' mean in your will if he has his own will?
It means that, if both the husband and wife die simultaneously, the wife's will is to be executed first.
What happen to the King who had the first Hope diamond?
It was in the French Royal house ( of Bourbon) as we all know King Louis XVi and his wife, Marie-Antoinette were executed by guillotine in the French Revolution.
Why did Nicolas Jacques Pelletier die?
Nicolas Jacques Pelletier was the first person to be executed by guillotine in France on April 25, 1792. He was a convicted highwayman and murderer, and his death sentence was carried out as a demonstration of the newly invented guillotine's efficiency and humanity compared to other execution methods. Pelletier's death marked the beginning of the widespread use of the guillotine during the French Revolution as a more humane and egalitarian form of capital punishment.
What year was the guillotine first used in England?
never.
Who were ten people who were executed by guillotine in the French Revolution?
Jeanne Becu, Comtess du Barry. Citizen Capet, alias Louis XVI. Widow Capet, alias Queen Marie Antoinette. Princess Elisabeth of France, sister of Citizen Capet. Antoine Lavoisier, the Father of Chemistry. Collenot d'Angremont, of the National Guard and first political prisoner executed. Arnaud II de La Porte, Minister of the Marine. Georges Danton. Maximilien Robespierre. Augustin Robespierre. Louis Saint Just. Georges Couthon. Francois Hanriot. Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, Highwayman and the first to die by guillotine.
Who built the first guillotine?
A piano-builder named Tobias Schmitt
Why is the guillotine personified in the book the scarlet pimpernel?
Presumably the same reason people gave nicknames to the electric chair such as Old Smokey, Old Sparky, Yellow Mama, and Gruesome Gertie. (I'm assuming you mean the Madame la Guillotine reference in the first chapter). During the French Revolution being executed by the guillotine was also called "shaking the hot hand" - similar to "dancing the hangman's jig" in England if you were hanged. In one of the Scarlet Pimpernel short stories there is a female character nicknamed Madame La Guillotine because she is particularly good at finding aristocrats (this story was developed further in the BBC series with Richard E Grant).
What did people do to receive the guillotine?
According to Wikipedia: The guillotine was used as the main method of execution in France and was made part of their popular culture during the French Revolution. The last publicguillotining was of Eugen Weidmann, who convicted of six murders. The first official use of the guillotine in France was April 25, 1792. The last was September 10, 1977. Capital crimes at the begining of the French Revolution were punishable by death by guillotine except for certain crimes against the security of the state which require the firing squad. Durring the French Revolution execution by guillotine was popular and most of the democratic reforms of the revolution were suspended and large-scale executions by guillotine began. Nobility and commoners, intellectuals, politicians and prostitutes were liable to be executed on little or no grounds; suspicion of "crimes against liberty" was a popular claim. Estimates of the death toll range between 16,000 and 40,000. Maximilien Robespierre became one of the most powerful men in the government, and the figure most associated with the Reign of Terror. In July 1794 he was arrested and executed in the same fashion as those whom he had condemned. This arguably ended the Reign of Terror.
What was the guiattine?
If you mean a guillotine, it's a beheading machine developed by the French and first used on April 25, 1792. It was particularly the rage during the French Revolution.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine
When was the guillotine used?
it was first used on Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on April 25, 1792
Why were the Rosenburgs executed in 1953?
they were the first spies executed for violation of the Atomic Espionage Act.
