It means executed by decapitation, having the head chopped off. It was the main method of capital punishment in France from the time of the French Revolution, and was last used there in 1977.
Yes! Everything about Robespierre's life was ironic pretty much. Sending all those people to the guillotine and then being guillotined himself, being ignored by Louis XVI and then being his demise.
The name of her executioner was Charles Henri Sanson.
King Louis XVI was known as Citizen Louis Capet in France after the Monarchy was ended in France and France declared itself a Republic. Thus King Louis XVI or Citizen Capet was a victim of the Reign of Terror when he was guillotined.
In 1792 the French Republic had lots of different mottos, including Union, Force, Vertu and La Nation, la Loi, le Roi. (Louis was not guillotined until 1793).The more famous Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité didn't really stabilise until some time in the nineteenth century.
He wasn't executed, he died of gangrene and old age. It was King Louis XVI that was guillotined during the French Revolution.
Maximilien de Robespierre was guillotined on July 28th, 1791.
dead.
Marie Antoinette was the wife of Louis XVI who was guillotined during the French Revolution.
The British took away French rebels to be guillotined. A good book about the French revolution is "A Tale of Two Cities."
Guillotined
Enemies of the Revolution.
Gee-yo-teend, with a "hard" G ( as in get ).
Maximilien Robespierre among others.
She was guillotined at age 45.
Around 80%
I believe you get guillotined if u do that??!??
Yes.