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never.
You would likely be killed BY a guillotine if placed IN a guillotine.
The Guillotine
a guillotine
The English word guillotine came to us as an allusion to Joseph Guillotin (1738-1814), a French doctor who proposed that an efficient machine should be used to carry out capital punishment. The first machine was built in 1791 and used the following year.The word was used as a noun in 1973 and as a verb in 1974.
Yes on 23 July 1794.
Guillotine. It would cut off the heads of the victims, during the Reign of Terror. Certain people thought it was more humane than the old way of killing people [hangings, or beheadings with axe's]. It's believed that even after you were beheaded by the guillotine you could still live up to 30 seconds.
The Guillotine originated in France.
The purpose of guillotine?
By guillotine.
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
it was first used on Nicolas Jacques Pelletier on April 25, 1792